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Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.” - C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020 -
Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe: Constitutional amendments
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/23/2022)FALSE: The executive presidential system can only be abolished by enacting a new constitution. This is because the president’s powers extend throughout the constitution. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Sunday Lankadeepa, 28 May 2022 -
Will the budget's veil of secrecy be lifted in 2024?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-01)The lack of transparency on the implementation progress of proposals in budget speeches has increased sharply in 2022 and 2023, according to a systematic evaluation conducted by Verité Research. The government – on ... -
Will the Increase in Cigarette Taxes Meet Budgeted Revenue?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-01-05)On January 1st, 2023, the government decided to raise the excise taxes on cigarettes by 20%. The increase affected various sizes of cigarettes differently, with the smallest size (no larger than 60mm) seeing a tax increase ... -
Will the Increase in Cigarette Taxes Meet Budgeted Revenue?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-01-05)This infographic outlines the fact that, though there was an increase in excise taxes on tobacco at the start of January in 2023, this will still not help Sri Lanka reach its revenue target for the year. -
Wimal Weerasansa: Total Export Income
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/4/2023)FALSE: The total export income has reduced by almost 10% this year when compared to last year. This is a huge reduction. Therefore, it is clear that the economic strategy the government is following under the guidance of ... -
Wimal Weerawansa: Income and Wealth Inequality
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-07)PARTLY TRUE: The wealthiest 1% in Sri Lanka enjoy 31% of the national income. Similarly, the 10% at the highest stratum of society, inclusive of that 1%, enjoy 64% of the national income […]. After that, the 50% at the ... -
Wimal Weerawansa: Industrial Income and Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/31/2021)TRUE: Industries occupy a special place in the national manufacturing process in Sri Lanka which is about 26.4% of the national GDP, and only a very low percentage of about 10% contributes to exports. - Wimal Weerawansa, ... -
Wimal Weerawansa: MCC agreement
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/13/2019)FALSE: …last week, the [US] Millennium Challenge Agreement was signed in Parliament. Once signed, a special economic corridor will be built from Trincomalee to Colombo Port. - Wimal Weerawansa, Ada, 7 November 2019 -
Wimal Weerawansa: Net Export Earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/27/2020)FALSE: For the first time since the open economy was introduced in 1977 by J.R. Jayawardena, the country’s export earnings exceeded import expenditure. - Wimal Weerawansa, Mawbima,13/07/2020 -
Wimalaweera Dissanayake: Health sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/7/2023)PARTLY TRUE: Even in the midst of all the shortcomings, it’s Sri Lanka that has the best health service in South Asia. Wimalaweera Dissanayake, The Life Traveler, 19 July 2023 -
A Win-Win Solution for Management and Workers in the Tea industry
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-03)Pareto Efficiency is an important concept in economics. It occurs when all win-win opportunities have been fully pursued. In societies as well as in organisations there are numerous opportunities to make changes that leave ... -
Women MPs in Parliament
(Manthri.lk, 2023-03-10)This infographic shows the women representation (F=5.3%; M= 94.7%) in 9th Parliament including collective contribution, average contribution of a woman relative to the contribution of a man, how the women MPs contributed ... -
Womens Day Interview with DailyMirror - 8 March 2023
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-03-08)In this interview, Senior Research analyst Sumini Siyambalapitiya talks about her research on women's economic empowerment, citing findings of the research: Costs of Doing a Job for Urban women in Sri Lanka -
World Environment Day 2023
(Manthri.lk, 2023-06-05)This infographic shows ranking of the topic out of the 15 topics monitored (8/15), the percentage of the total time spent on the topic (4.7%), number of MPs who contributed to the topic (158) and the top 5 contributing MPs ... -
World Health Day 2023
(Manthri.lk, 2023-04-07)This infographic shows ranking of the topic out of the 15 topics monitored (4/15), the percentage of the total time spent on the topic (5.5%), number of MPs who contributed to the topic (158), allotted expenditure under ... -
World Labour Day 2023
(Manthri.lk, 2023-05-04)This infographic shows ranking of the topic out of the 15 topics monitored (11/15), the percentage of the total time spent on the topic (2.9%), number of MPs who contributed to the topic (135), and the top 5 contributing ... -
World Press Freedom Day
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05-03)This infographic depicts SL's rank/position in the World Press Freedom index. -
World Press Freedom Day 2023
(Manthri.lk, 2023-05-05)This infographic shows ranking of the topic out of the 65 subtopics monitored (40/65), the percentage of the total time spent on the topic (0.6%), number of MPs who contributed to the topic (46), and the top 5 contributing ... -
World Water Day 2023 - Water Supply and Drainage: Top Contributing MPS
(Manthri.lk, 2023-03-21)This infographic shows the percentage of the total time spent on the topic (1.2%), and top contributing MPs to the topic and the productive time spent by individual MPs on this topic as a percentage of total time spent on ...