🆘 Help shape budget 2026 💡 Verité Research is introducing something exciting to help you participate in the budget process. 🔴 Stay Tuned! #publicparticipationbudget2026 #budget2026 #srilanka

Did you ever wonder... "what say do i have, could i have, in the national budget?" the answer, it turns out, is: "more than you might think" follow the Verité Research handle and find out soon how it plans to give you a space to have a your say in the national budget!

4️⃣ The budget unfolds in four stages across the year. 🔴 At every stage, your voice can make a difference. #publicparticipationbudget2026 #budget2026 #SriLanka

📣 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭 📉 Sri Lanka ranks 82nd out of 125 countries for public participation in the national budget, with a score of just 7 out of 100. That means, decisions about our tax money are being made

⚖️ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐫𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐚'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫? 🔴 At a recent session for the Sunday Times Business Club, Sankhitha Gunaratne (Sankhitha Gunaratne), Head of Governance and Anti-Corruption and Deputy

Everyone should listen to this statement at the United Nations "I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you." "Future generations will hold us to account, we should fear that judgement."

I disagree with Dhananath Fernando’s options. Just shut it down. themorning.lk/articles/meBT6…

🔴 Verité Research Budget Proposal Hub proposes the replacement of the fixed 13% limit on primary expenditure with a revenue-linked rule. 👇 Here's why. 🔍 Explore this and other proposals on the Budget Proposal Hub, and vote for the reforms that matter most to you.

⚠️ 🔴 Sri Lanka's Governance-Linked Bond offers USD 70 million in debt relief. But the country could lose it due to a fiscal planning oversight. 🔴 The Government's revenue targets for the next two years follow the latest IMF expectations. But they are slightly lower than

🔴 Verité Research Executive Director, Dr. Nishan de Mel (Nishan de Mel), was a panelist today at the CA Sri Lanka Budget Seminar 2026. He highlighted the importance of building sustainable economic growth in the medium term, emphasizing how fiscal and monetary policies must work in

🔴 At the COPF committee meeting in Parliament of Sri Lanka on the 2026 Budget, Verité Research’s Lead Economist, Anushan Kapilan (Anushan), delivered insights from our latest budget analysis. He highlighted three key areas for attention, including the lack of availability of updated

Thanks Harvard Club Boston for inviting me to the panel discussing the future of economies and #SustainableDevelopment in a complex and troubled world during their annual conference for the Asia and Pacific region. I spoke about the need to build on the rule-based global order founded

🔴 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 At the Devex Impact House panel discussion held alongside the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Verité Research Executive Director Dr. Nishan de Mel (Nishan de Mel)

Nishan de Mel referred: Inequality should be treated similarly to the crisis of Climate change. #CGS #BOBC2025 #Inequality

🔴 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠; 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. In this talk at the Bay of Bengal Conversation (Bay of Bengal Conversation), our Executive Director, Dr Nishan de Mel (Nishan de Mel), argues that countries around

In 2013, Anthony Bourdain travelled through Israel and Palestine, including the West Bank and Gaza, for an episode of his CNN series Parts Unknown. youtube.com/watch?v=BDswwr… His aim was to show, as he put it, “regular people doing everyday things” such as cooking and sharing

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