Sri Lanka Needs Medium and Long Term Plan to Overcome Debt Crisis

by |01 August 202106 September 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...

‘Sri Lanka’s Import Regime is One of the most Complex and Protectionist in the World’ – US State Department

by |24 July 202114 October 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...

Desperately Searching for Dollars: Importers and Import-Intensive Exporters Badly Hit

by |04 July 202106 September 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...

The Need for Increased Fuel Prices and Divestiture of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation

by |27 June 202110 August 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. ...

‘SL Treats Investors as Most Welcome Partners’

by |22 June 202110 August 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....

Investment Forum 2021 Aims Gamechanger for Sri Lanka

by |31 May 202109 August 2021|Verité in the News

Published in the DailyFT The Sri Lanka Investment Forum 2021, a three-day virtual event to engage and attract foreign investment into Sri Lanka will commence on 7 June. The forum, jointly hosted by the Board of Investment, together with the...

Reviewing the Data Dissemination Practices of Sri Lanka’s Department of Census and Statistics

by |24 May 202124 May 2021

In 2014 a data dissemination policy was introduced by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) in Sri Lanka. The DCS is the primary agency responsible for the collection, compilation and dissemination of official statistics. (more…)

“පොදු දත්ත” පුද්ගලීකරණය කිරීම: ශ්‍රී ලංකා රේගුව උදාහරණයක් ලෙස

by |04 May 202124 May 2021

ජාත්‍යන්තර වෙළඳ දත්ත පොදු දේපලකි. සැබෑ කරුණු මත පදනම් වූ ප්‍රතිපත්ති සැලසුම් කිරීමට, ව්‍යාපාරවලට වඩාත් නිවැරදි තීරණ ගැනීමට, ආර්ථික හා සමාජීය කරුණු පිළිබඳ මහජන පර්යේෂණ සඳහා පෙළඹවීමට සහ ජනතාවට රජයේ වගවීම වැඩි දියුණු කිරීමට දත්ත සඳහා ප්‍රවේශය අත්‍යවශ්‍ය වේ. එහෙත්,...

Privatisation of Public Data: Sri Lanka Customs as a Case in Point

by |22 April 202124 May 2021|Interviews & Articles

Published in - DailyMirror Data collected and held by government agencies is a valuable ‘public asset’. Properly utilised, such data can help the private and public sector better contribute to Sri Lanka’s economic growth. These datasets are compiled at public...

Privatisation of Public Data: Sri Lanka Customs as a Case in Point

by |22 April 202124 May 2021

International trade data is a public good. Yet, SLC's data dissemination policy is currently at odds with seeing the trade data it collects as a public good. (more…)

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