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“Sugar Scam” is not the Whole Iceberg: “Forestalling” needs a Rule-of-Law Solution
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms.
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“Sugar Scam” is not the Whole Iceberg: “Forestalling” needs a Rule-of-Law Solution
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms.
Featured Insight
“Sugar Scam” is not the Whole Iceberg: “Forestalling” needs a Rule-of-Law Solution
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms.
Featured Insight
“Sugar Scam” is not the Whole Iceberg: “Forestalling” needs a Rule-of-Law Solution
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms.
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Total and primary deficits run in opposite directions
The governments primary deficit improved in the first half of 2023 compared to the corresponding period in 2022, while the budget deficit worsened increasing from LKR -903 Bn to LKR -1,243 Bn which implies a significant 93 percent increase a...
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Wall Street targets bad governance in Sri Lanka wi...
Dr. Nishan de Mel, an economist and head of Verite Research, proposed that bond investors offer incentives, such as reduced interest rates, for the Sri Lankan government to improve governance, like better tax collectio...
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China supports Sri Lanka’s IMF deal, AIIB agrees t...
China’s has said it will support Sri Lanka in its negotiation with the International Monetary Fund, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has indicted its willingness to lend 160 million US dollars, Finance Mini...
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Sri Lanka reclassifies some sovereign bonds as dom...
Sri Lanka has reclassified 2.2 billion US dollars of international sovereign bonds held by local entities like banks as domestic debt, while a collapse in secondary market prices of bonds also reduced external debt due to accounting treatment, official data show. Sri La...
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China, Japan, I...
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Who Are the Major Foreign Lenders for Sr...
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Actual Liability of the Government Is Mo...
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Non-Compliance with the Fiscal Managemen...
The Fiscal Management (responsibility) Ac...
Government Debt Has Surpassed 100% of GD...
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3 Problems on Debt Numbers
A case study by VeriteResearch identified 3 main problems in debt repo...
Navigating Sri Lanka's Debt: Better repo...
The published information on debt underes...
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The Cost of a Kevili Table in 2023
This Avurudu, the cost of preparing a Kevili table has risen by 2.4 times since 2019. The basket of items one would usually find at Kevili table vary between households. Public Finance.lk used the following: Kokis...
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Sri Lanka met 29 IMF commitments and failed 3 by e...
Sri Lanka had met 29 of the 100 trackable commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme and had failed on three as of the end of May 2023, according to ‘The IMF Tracker’ dashboard of Verité Research.
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