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මැයි 18 දින සැමරුම් සිරස්තල කිහිපයක්, කෝණ දෙකක්
No full textThis entry has one write-up and one infographic (all in Sinhala).On 19 May 2023, Sinhala newspapers published articles about the ceremony that was held on 18 May 2023 to commemorate the deceased Tamil nationals who died during the Sri Lankan civil war. The papers which reported on this used different angles in how they framed the news. Dinamina, Divaina and Lankadeepa called the ceremony as a tiger commemoration. But Mawbima, Ada and Aruna reported this as a ceremony in Mullliwaikkal
ETCA With India: Time to Shift Focus From Market Integration to Supply Chain Integration
Get PDF5p. This article was published by the Daily mirror as an opinion column in print and is also available online at https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/opinion/ETCA-with-India-Time-to-shift-focus-from-Market-Integration-to-Supply-Chain-Integration/172-258252This article looks at; 1) what are global supply chains and why do they matter; 2) how new trade deals are focusing more on supply chain resilience than market access; 3) how current trade deals with India are focused on market access; and 4) why it is important to prioritise supply chain integration & resilience
Parliament Summary - January 2023
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and Tamil.This infographic includes the summary of parliament in January 2023. There were 5 parliament sittings in January 2023. During the 5 parliament sittings, 50 written questions were asked but only 8 questions were answered. There were 3 motions at the adjournment time. Mahinda Amaraweera was the most contributed MP for the motions at the adjournment time. 9 announcements were made by the Speaker during the 5 parliament sittings. The number of Bills, Regulations and Orders were 5, 2 and 0 respectively. Under Private Member's Bills, there were no Incorporation Bills whereas 1 Bill for the Public interest. There were 4 questions by the Private notice at the parliament in January 2023. 21 Point of orders were raised in total, and all 21 point of orders were ruled as technical point of orders. Therefore, no disruptive point of orders in the parliament during this month. 7 statements were considered as expunged statements at the Parliament in January 2023
Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Irrigation
No full textThis infographic is available in English and SinhalaOn December 11, 2023, during the 17th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Irrigation were passed. This infographic further highlights key takeaways from Minister Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi 's speech
IMF අපේ ආණ්ඩුව විශ්වාස කරනවද? = Does the IMF Believe in Government
No full textInterviewed by Asoka Dias and telecasted on 17 January 2023 - External video URL - https://youtu.be/1dVUwH7eUJA (30 minutes approx)In this Sirasa Pathikada interview, Executive Director Dr. Nishan De Mel discusses about the IMF deal, weighing on the actions of the Sri Lankan Governmen
Government Revenue Loss due to the Sugar Tax Cut
No full textThis infographic was posted on the Public Finance Platform in English.The Special Commodity Levy (SCL) on imported sugar was reduced from LKR 50/kg to LKR 0.25/kg on the 13th of October 2020. This was intended to reduce the price of sugar in the domestic market. The cumulative loss of government revenue was over LKR 59 Bn as of December 2022 as a result of the sugar tax change. However, the reduction in the levy did not have the desired effect on the domestic market price as domestic market prices have been on the rise even after the levy reduction. The reduction in the levy did however result in substantial tax revenue being lost
International Women's Day
No full textThis infographic was posted on the Public Finance Platform in all three languages: English, Sinhala and Tamil.In Sri Lanka women are half as likely to enter the labour market, and twice as likely to be unemployed than men. 82% of the unemployment for women comes from between the ages of 20 and 40. This is almost seven times the unemployment compared to women of other ages. Within ages 20 and 40, women are on average four times likely to be unemployed compared to men of the same age. State sponsored maternity leave benefits costs significantly lower than other welfare programs of the government. Maternity leave benefits cost 0.5% of tax revenue as of 2021, compared to Samurdhi payments, amounting to 4.2% of tax revenue. When Sri Lanka ratified the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Maternity Protection Convention in 1952 (No. 103), it committed to the state supporting maternity leave benefits
IMF Programme: Performance Evaluation - September 2023 - Transparency Falls to Lowest Point
No full textThese infographics were posted on the Public Finance Platform and are in all three languages: English, Sinhala and Tamil.The latest update from 'IMF Tracker’ of Verité Research, an online platform which tracks the 100 identified commitments in Sri Lanka’s 17th programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), shows that Sri Lanka verifiably met only 40 of the 71 trackable commitments that were due for completion by end-September 2023.
This unveils a "twin deficit in transparency": (a) a growing lack of transparency in the progress of the programme, and (b) a growing failure to meet IMF commitments that call for increased governmental transparency
IMF Programme: Performance Evaluation - August 2023
No full textThis entry contains 12 infographics; 4 each in Sinhala, Tamil and EnglishThe purpose of this analysis is to ensure that VR’s IMF Tracker can be used more effectively to raise public awareness about monitoring of public finance, and to increase its use by CSOs to monitor progress. The analysis will feed into enhancing public participation and transparency in budget processes, which is urgently needed given Sri Lanka’s low performance in this respect. This set of infographics, which analyses Sri Lankan government’s progress on meeting 100 trackable IMF commitments for August 2023, creates social media engagement/public engagement, to the VR’s IMF tracker to explain the EFF-supported program and how to use the IMF Tracker (available as far as possible in all three languages). According to the August analysis, Sri Lanka has so far met 38% of IMF commitments, while 11% of the commitments are unknown, 8% are not met and 43% are pending.CIP
Parliamentary report card: Wimal Weerawansa – September 2015 to February 2020 and August 2020 to April 2023
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and Tamil.This report card shows the contribution of MP Wimal Weerawansa (SLPP) in 8th and 9th parliaments. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from September 2015 to February 2020 and August 2020 to April 2023. This includes overall rank (36/225; 55/225), Colombo district rank (10/19; 13/19), attendance in parliament sittings (205/414; 104/256), total number of productive interventions he made in parliament (350,148) and topics which were discussed most by him in the parliament i.e., Economy and Finance; Governance, Administration and Parliamentary Affairs; Trade and Industry; Justice, Defense and Public Order