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    • Backwards in Blacklisting: Enabling Corruption in Procurement 

      Abeysinghe, Subhashini (Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-11-23)
      Failure 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 ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Active Liability Management Act 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/26/2019)
      FALSE: This government passed an act to obtain annual loans from foreigners without limitations. This act was passed by misleadingly naming it the Active Liability Management Act. According to this, they can obtain any ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Bond Commission report 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/14/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: In early February 2018, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP and party spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran sabotaged an adjournment debate on the treasury bond scam report. The newspaper went on to say ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Central Bank Liability 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/25/2020)
      TRUE: When money is deposited in a financial institution, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is only responsible for up to LKR 600,000. - Bandula Gunawardana, Department of Government Information Facebook Page, 4 June 2020

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/20/2022)
      FALSE: The debt stood at 2 trillion when Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country. It stood at 7 trillion at the time he handed over the country. The debt only rose by 5 trillion in [those] 10 years. [But] The debt stood ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Sathosa Losses 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/8/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: [Sathosa] was an institution that did not incur losses before 2015. Sathosa has lost 20 billion rupees during the last five years (2015 – 2019). - Bandula Gunawardana, Daily News, 10 March 2021

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Singapore FTA 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/19/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: As a result of the gazette notification 2069/2, nearly 4000 products can be imported with zero tariffs as per the Sri Lanka–Singapore Free Trade Agreement. - Bandula Gunawardana, 17 October 2018, Divaina

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Tax Revenue 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/12/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: The tax revenue in 2014 at the end of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government was Rs. 1,050 billion. Thereafter, its successor the Good Governance Government imposed tax rates to collect more than Rs. 1,700 billion a ...

    • Bandula Gunawardane: Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/8/2023)
      TRUE: …. the Fiscal Management Responsibility Act No. 3 of 2003…had three main goals…to maintain the budget gap below 5%..... reducing public debt as a percentage of GDP to 65% by 2013, that is, in 10 years…. reducing the ...

    • Bandula Gunawardane: Total Exports 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/3/2022)
      PARTLY TRUE: Sri Lanka increased exports by 23% amidst challenging environment faced both locally and globally. Total exports are USD 12.3 billion in 2020 and USD15.12 billion in 2021. - Bandula Gunawardane, Official ...

    • Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ...

    • Basil Rajapaksa: Poultry and eggs 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/9/2021)
      TRUE:Sri Lanka…[is] already [close to being] self-sufficient in eggs and poultry. - Basil Rajapaksa, Budget Speech, 12 Novemeber 2021

    • Betting and Gaming Levy Act Amended 

      Parliamentry Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-08-10)
      This infographic was created as a response to the second and third reading of the amendment to the Betting and Gaming Levy Act which was passed in the parliament without a division on 9th August 2023. The infographic ...

    • Black July: How did the press cover it? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/31/2019)
      The manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press covered commemorative events of the 1983 Black July Sinhala press - 14 Tamil press - 56

    • Bloomberg Markets Predicts LKR's Possible Depreciation Against USD 

      Econ Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-06-02)
      Bloomberg reported that the Sri Lankan rupee may deteriorate as a result of upcoming debt repayments. In March 2023 Verite Research took the view that greater volatility in exchange rates increases uncertainty and risk for ...

    • Brief - The Cabinet Decision to Ban Women from Purchasing Liquor is Unconstitutional 

      Legal Team (Verité Research, 2018-09)
      The submission includes a draft brief on “The Cabinet Decision to Ban Women from Purchasing Liquor is Unconstitutional”. Women are permitted to purchase liquor. On 10 January 2018, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media ...

    • Buddhist Archaeological sites under attack 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 11/30/2019)
      Based on a discussion with the Ellawala Medanandha Thera, Lakbima reports that Buddhist archeological sites in the North and the East have recently come under attack in unprecedented ways. The thera points out that even ...

    • Budget 2017: Second Reading Vote 

      Team, Manthri (Manthri.lk, 2017-02-15)
      This infograpic depicts how MPs voted in the 2nd reading of the 2017 budget.

    • Budget 2017: Third Reading Vote 

      Team, Manthri (Manthri.lk, 2016-12-15)
      This infograpic depicts how MPs voted in the 3rd reading of the 2017 budget.

    • Budget 2018: Second Reading Vote 

      Team, Manthri (Manthri.lk, 2017-11-17)
      This infograpic depicts how MPs voted in the 2nd reading of the 2018 budget