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“Budget Promises – Beyond Parliament” (www.budgetpromises.org) is a pioneering online platform developed by Verité Research. This platform takes stock of the government’s track record in executing the 2017 budget promises during the first six months of the year. It asks...

Tracking the promises of ‘yahapalanaya’ – Manthri.lk launches its General Election Manifesto Tracker The National Unity Government is fast approaching the half-way mark of their term in office. Running under two coalitions, the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG)...

Right to Information: Discourse and Compliance Verité Research, together with Democracy Reporting International (DRI) launched a paper titled ‘Right to Information: Discourse and Compliance’, on the 27th of February at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute. The paper presented practical recommendations for...

Facilitating Trademark Registration: Towards creating globally recognised Sri Lankan brands Sri Lankan businesses go through a lengthy and costly process to register their trademarks abroad. As a solution, the Government of Sri Lanka decided to join the Madrid Protocol. This...

The effects of domestic NTBs on agricultural export growth A study by Verité Research (VR) together with the Lanka Fruit and Vegetables Producers, Processors and Exporters Association (LFVPPEA) found that domestic barriers faced by Sri Lankan exporters at the border...

Governments deliver important social and economic goods to citizens using public procurement.  The Sri Lankan government spent approximately 597 billion rupees through public procurement in 2015. This is about 5.3% of its GDP, and 26% of total government expenditure. However,...

Manthri.lk, Sri Lanka's pioneering provider of parliamentary monitoring services, launched the rankings for the 8th Parliament of Sri Lanka on the 21st of July at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute Auditorium. Manthri.lk is a trilingual web platform that monitors parliamentary activity...

Taking paper out of Sri Lanka’s “Paperless” Trade Accepting Electronic Documents & Signatures Paperless Trade: Two decades of effort with little success Paperless trade refers to “a trade process, where all the contracts and documentation is handled electronically with little...