Verité in the News

    Private Sector Needs Consistent Policies to Take Risks
    by |02 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on Daily News The biggest support the government can give to the private sector is to give them confidence and this can be done by spelling out consistent policies and marinating them, said Chairman of Ceylon Chamber of Commerce,...
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    Sri Lanka Needs Medium and Long Term Plan to Overcome Debt Crisis
    by |01 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Sunday Times Although immediate debt repayment payments have been settled, the government will have to implement a medium and long term plan with clear policy derived by analysing all its aspects, a leading economist emphasised. Verite Research...
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    Verité Research Hands over New Study on Due Process to Minister of Justice
    by |30 July 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in the DailyFT Verité Research yesterday handed over a report on Sri Lanka’s due process and preparedness during emergencies to Justice Minister Ali Sabry. The purpose of the report was to study the Judiciary’s response to the challenges of...
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    ‘Sri Lanka’s Import Regime is One of the most Complex and Protectionist in the World’ – US State Department
    by |24 July 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on Tamil Guardian  Citing the World Bank, the US State Department‘s Investment Climate report highlights that Sri Lanka’s “import regime is one of the most complex and protectionist in the world”. The World Banks’ Doing Business Index ranked Sri...
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    Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa Dynasty Is Not as Secure as It Appears
    by |15 July 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Economist SINCE WINNING the presidency in a landslide nearly two years ago, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has worried not that he has too many relatives in government, but that he has too few. One of the 72-year-old’s elder brothers,...
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    Desperately Searching for Dollars: Importers and Import-Intensive Exporters Badly Hit
    by |04 July 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Sunday Times Importers continued to fret this week with containers–many of them holding inputs for export manufacturing–held up because dollar-strapped Sri Lankan banks were slow in settling payments with the sellers’ banks abroad. “I bring in raw...
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    The Need for Increased Fuel Prices and Divestiture of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation
    by |27 June 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Island. In a recent TV talk show “Face the Nation”, a panel of economists mostly with experience in the private sector delivered an insightful and no holds barred discussion on the recent hike in petroland diesel prices. ...
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    ‘SL Treats Investors as Most Welcome Partners’
    by |22 June 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in the Daily News Sri Lanka treats investors as the most welcome partners and offers strong fundamentals for investing together with regulatory support, investment protection, investment incentive framework and everything that an investor is looking for in a country....
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    Experts shed Key Insights to Boosting EU-SL Economic Partnership
    by |21 June 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on DailyFT Top diplomats, investors and economists recently echoed that commercial cooperation, development and partnership links with the European Union (EU) has immensely helped to develop Sri Lanka’s economy. “Needless to say, the EU representing 27 countries as a...
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    Hiking Cigarette Prices Would Make More Sense: Economist
    by |14 June 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on DailyFT Economist Nishan de Mel has said that increasing the cost of cigarettes rather than fuel prices would make better economic sense. In support of his argument, de Mel, in a tweet, said the estimated loss incurred by...
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