Some ‘concessional’ loans less favourable than borrowing on markets: Verité

    Some ‘concessional’ loans less favourable than borrowing on markets: Verité
    by |14 September 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - The Morning The extent of concessionality in loans is being overestimated, and that in some cases loans that are deemed concessional can be less favourable than borrowing on international financial markets, said Verité Research in a recent...
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    Slide Deck: Financing Infrastructure: The (non) Concessionality of Concessional Loans
    by |11 September 2020
    Sri Lanka is highly dependent on international loans from multilateral and bilateral sources to finance infrastructure development. Multilateral and bilateral borrowing is often favoured by governments such as Sri Lanka because such financing tends to have ‘concessional’ elements, relative to...
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    Financing Infrastructure: The (non) Concessionality of Concessional Loans
    by |10 September 2020
    Sri Lanka is highly dependent on international loans from multilateral and bilateral sources to finance infrastructure development. Multilateral and bilateral borrowing is often favoured by governments such as Sri Lanka because such financing tends to have ‘concessional’ elements, relative to...
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    State Funding for Maternity Leave in Sri Lanka – A No-Brainer
    by |02 September 2020
    Women in the 20-39 age cohort are uniquely and severely disadvantaged in the labour market in Sri Lanka. This disadvantage is linked to the current policy of placing the full cost of maternity leave benefits (MLBs) on employers. (more…)
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    A Rational Method for Cabinet Formation in Sri Lanka: A White Paper
    by |11 August 2020
    Ministries are the overarching bodies that house relevant government institutions and functions within a particular subject area. They are responsible for the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of national-level policies and strategies in their assigned sectors (such as health, education,...
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    වැඩක් කළ හැකි කැබිනට්ටුවක්: ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ අමාත්‍යංශ
    by |07 August 2020
    රජයේ කි‍්‍රයාකාරීත්වය ඵලදායී සහ කාර්යක්ෂම මට්ටමක පවතින බව සහතික කිරීම සදහා කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය ලබාදෙන දායකත්වය සුලූපටු නැත. නමුත් අප සිදුකළ පර්යේෂණයකින් අනාවරණය වූ ආකාරයට පසුගිය වසර කිහිපයේ මෙරට ඇති කෙරුණු කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලවලින් එවැනි දායකත්වයක් ලැබී නොමැත. (more…)
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    Change? Let’s start from the Cabinet
    by |30 July 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - Daily Mirror As Sri Lanka heads for parliamentary elections on August 5, the final stage of electoral campaigns are now coming to an end.  A total of 7452 candidates will contest in the 2020 parliamentary election, with...
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    A Cabinet that Works
    by |24 July 2020
    The role played by the Cabinet of Ministers is critical to ensure that the government functions efficiently and effectively. Verité Research has found that the way in which Cabinet portfolios are designed in Sri Lanka impedes the ability of government...
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    A Cabinet that Works: Ministries in Sri Lanka
    by |24 July 2020
    The role played by the Cabinet of Ministers is critical to ensure that the government functions efficiently and effectively. Verité Research has found that the way in which Cabinet portfolios are designed in Sri Lanka impedes the ability of government...
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    Fighting corruption still a voter priority: Survey
    by |20 July 2020|Verité in the News
    Taken from - DailyFT Image courtesy - DailyFT By Uditha Jayasinghe Fighting corruption remains a high priority among voters despite the change of Government and no party making it their main campaign platform ahead of the Parliamentary Election, a well-known...
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