Insights Curated perspectives and reflections offering valuable understanding on current trends and developments Home/ Services & Products/ Research Outputs/ Insights/ Insights Search Popular Keywords Categories No Record Found View All Results Proposed Beneficial Ownership Register: Two Gaps Undermine Effectiveness Read More » March 10, 2025 Stealth Reduction Of Cigarette Tax Rates Read More » January 26, 2025 13% primary expenditure rule proposed for Sri Lanka departs from economic theory and practice Read More » July 24, 2024 Retirement Funds Face Regressive Taxation in Sri Lanka Read More » October 12, 2023 Does Sri Lanka Need More Rules or Better Compliance? Read More » March 6, 2023 Is it safe to breathe in Sri Lanka: the case for data Read More » November 30, 2022 Tourism Could Not Have Solved Sri Lanka’s Foreign Exchange Crisis Read More » September 28, 2022 දුම්වැටි බදු අයකිරීමේ සූත්‍රය අමතක වීමේ පිරිවැය Read More » September 13, 2022 Cigarette Taxation Formula – The Cost of Forgetting Read More » June 10, 2022 De-mystifying the Increase in Sri Lanka’s Debt Read More » February 28, 2022 Ceylon Petroleum Corporation: What Drives the Losses? Read More » September 28, 2021 ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කාබනික පොහොර වෙතට මාරු වීමට දැරූ ප්‍රයත්නය Read More » September 27, 2021 Organic Fertiliser Transition in Sri Lanka Read More » September 22, 2021 Quantifying the COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo Read More » September 15, 2021 පොදු දත්ත පොදු කිරීම: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිය ඉලක්කය වෙත යාමට අසමත් වෙද්දී ඉන්දියාව එය අභිබවා යයි Read More » July 30, 2021 Making Public Data Public: Sri Lanka Misses its Own Targets While India Races Ahead Read More » July 30, 2021 “පොදු දත්ත” පුද්ගලීකරණය කිරීම: ශ්‍රී ලංකා රේගුව උදාහරණයක් ලෙස Read More » May 4, 2021 Privatisation of Public Data: Sri Lanka Customs as a Case in Point Read More » April 22, 2021 Reducing the Gap in Understanding Sri Lanka’s Gender Gap Read More » March 28, 2021 Does the Sri Lankan media exploit parliamentary candidates during elections? Read More » December 14, 2020 State Funding for Maternity Leave in Sri Lanka – A No-Brainer Read More » September 2, 2020 Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Revenue in 2020 if Indexation Is Implemented Read More » May 20, 2020 දර්ශකයකට අනුව දුම්වැටි බදු අයකරන්නට කටයුතු කලොත්, 2020 දී, රජයට රුපියල් බිලියන 20ක අමතර ආදායමක් Read More » December 30, 2019 Flawed rationale behind EPF re-entering the stock market Read More » December 18, 2019 කොටස් වෙළදපලට සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල නැවත ඇතුළත්වීම පසුපස ඇති සාවද්‍ය තර්කය Read More » September 30, 2019 Cigarette Tax Indexation: Getting it Right and Getting it Wrong Read More » August 28, 2019 The Hidden Side of Cigarette Pricing Read More » July 5, 2018 Tobacco Policy: Mitigating the Influence of Vested Interests Read More » July 5, 2018 Who is Responsible for ‘Alternative Facts’ on Cigarette Taxation? Read More » July 5, 2018 Sri Lanka’s economic competitiveness: a microcosm of its politics? Read More » March 9, 2018 The new Ministers of Finance: Will their budget keep its promises? Read More » August 9, 2017 The Sri Lankan economy needs a better bureaucracy, not just a better Cabinet of Ministers Read More » May 23, 2017 Fixing Sri Lanka’s Revenue Problem is a Priority Read More » February 10, 2017 Trademark Registration: From Colombo to Madrid Read More » November 30, 2016 Cigarette Taxes Need Parliament’s Oversight Read More » June 18, 2016 Are Sri Lanka’s exports to India over dependent on concessions? Read More » May 18, 2016 Economic mismanagement is a governance problem – it needs governance solutions Read More » May 11, 2016 Trade in Services: Unearthing the devil in the details Read More » April 6, 2016 Trade in Services: Sri Lanka needs to pull up its socks Read More » March 9, 2016 Sri Lanka’s tea Industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up Read More » February 24, 2016 Exchange rate management: politics trumps professionalism Read More » January 26, 2016 Sri Lanka’s post war growth: Still stuck in an unsustainable strategy Read More » January 23, 2016 Reviving Exports: The Relevance of Export Finance Read More » September 23, 2015 Fixing NTBs between India and Sri Lanka Read More » August 23, 2015 Exports to India – Putting the free back into the FTA Read More » July 23, 2015 Central Bank’s 30 Year Bond Debacle: What is the Loss? Read More » July 23, 2015 What caused Europe to ban the import of fish from Sri Lanka? Read More » February 23, 2015 Sri Lanka’s international borrowing costs are not declining Read More » November 23, 2014 Explaining the Mirage of GDP Growth Optimism Read More » August 23, 2014 Is blocking websites making Sri Lanka’s telecom share prices vulnerable? Read More » July 9, 2014 Parliament should have a formula for regulating cigarettes Read More » June 9, 2014 USD 20 billion export target by 2020: Aiming to be mediocre Read More » March 4, 2014
13% primary expenditure rule proposed for Sri Lanka departs from economic theory and practice Read More » July 24, 2024
පොදු දත්ත පොදු කිරීම: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිය ඉලක්කය වෙත යාමට අසමත් වෙද්දී ඉන්දියාව එය අභිබවා යයි Read More » July 30, 2021
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Does the Sri Lankan media exploit parliamentary candidates during elections? Read More » December 14, 2020
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දර්ශකයකට අනුව දුම්වැටි බදු අයකරන්නට කටයුතු කලොත්, 2020 දී, රජයට රුපියල් බිලියන 20ක අමතර ආදායමක් Read More » December 30, 2019
කොටස් වෙළදපලට සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල නැවත ඇතුළත්වීම පසුපස ඇති සාවද්‍ය තර්කය Read More » September 30, 2019
The Sri Lankan economy needs a better bureaucracy, not just a better Cabinet of Ministers Read More » May 23, 2017
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Sri Lanka’s tea Industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up Read More » February 24, 2016
