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The new Ministers of Finance: Will their budget keep its promises?
Full text linkAn analysis of past budgets revel large deviations between budgeted allocations and actual expenditure. This shows that expectations set by the government during the budget speech are not honoured. This Insight analyses budgeting on social services and the rural economy to demonstrate the extent of deviations in promised allocations and actual expenditure. Results suggest that when precise expenditure is not tangible, it is easier to renege on budget promises
Backwards in Blacklisting: Enabling Corruption in Procurement
Full text link3p. This article was published as an opinion column by the Daily Mirror in print and is available online at https://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Backwards-in-blacklisting-Enabling-corruption-in-procurement/172-271829Failure to tackle corruption is a key factor that contributed to the economic crisis the country is faced with today. Taking concrete steps to reduce corruption, therefore, is critical to recover from the current crisis and to put the country on a sustainable growth path. Public procurement is an important area the country has to focus on in its fight against corruption. Public procurement refers to the purchasing of goods and services by the government, ranging from stationary items to services of contractors to construct ports and power plants. Corruption in procurement pushes up the price of contracts, leading to the waste of scarce
public funds. Research indicates that the amount lost on public contracts due to corruption can amount to 10–25% of a public contract’s value on average. This article points out one of the critical shortcomings in the public procurement regulatory framework in Sri Lanka that makes it highly vulnerable to corruption. The current regulatory framework fails to recognise engaging in fraudulent and corrupt activities during procurement as a valid reason for blacklisting. Sri Lanka is in fact a backward outlier in the South Asian region in this respect
Sri Lanka: International Trade - Performance and Prognosis
No full textThe related report, Sri Lanka: International Trade - Performance and Prognosis Vol. 1, No. 1, is also available in the KMS.This brief provides a detailed analysis of Sri Lanka's trade performance during 2013 and the first quarter of 2014. The review highlights the external and internal drivers that shaped Sri Lanka's external trade developments. The key challenges the country faces in terms of tweaking trade policy to meet the twin objectives of reducing trade deficit and increasing government revenue is discussed in detail. The analysis shows that reducing the trade deficit by curtailing imports may be feasible in the short run, but it will adversely affect government revenue and economic growth
Sri Lanka: International Trade - Performance and Prognosis
No full textThe related report, Sri Lanka:International Trade - Performance and Prognosis Vol. 2, No. 1 is also available in the KMS.This brief analyses Sri Lanka's international trade with special reference to its trade deficit, apparel sector and tea exports. It also analyses and evaluates the policies and structural issues Sri Lanka's trade faces
USD 20 billion export target by 2020: Aiming to be mediocre
No full text2p.In 2014, the government set an 'ambitious' target to increase exports to USD 20 billion by 2020. The Insight argues that this target is rather mediocre and yet, even with such a low bar, it is out of Sri Lanka's reach. Further, the Insight draws focus on the underlying problems that need to be addressed in order for Sri Lanka to move forward in its export targets
අයවැය පොරොන්දු කඩන සම්ප්රදායට අළුත් ඇමතිලා තිතක් තියයිද? = The new Ministers of Finance: Will their budget keep its promises?
No full textAn English version of this Insight is also available in the KMS.An analysis of past budgets reveal large deviations between budgeted allocations and actual expenditure. This shows that expectations set by the government during the budget speech are not honoured. This Insight analyses budgeting on social services and the rural economy to demonstrate the extent of deviations in promised allocations and actual expenditure. Results suggest that when precise expenditure is not tangible, it is easier to renege on budget promises.Internal Initiativ
Shaping and influencing public discourse on public policy: Role of think tanks and research organizations (Presentation)
No full text25 slides. This was presented to Griffith UniversityThink tanks and research organizations have a role in shaping and influencing public discourse on public policy. The objective of this presentation is to introduce Verité Research, their research products and the impact of their research products in shaping and influencing public policy
Explaining the Mirage of GDP Growth Optimism
No full textThe government estimates that by 2015 per capita GDP will quadruple from what it was in 2004. But this is a mirage: real incomes will not even double in that period. The mirage is created by counting in US dollars and effectively presenting nominal growth in GDP (increased prices) as real GDP growth (increased incomes)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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