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The Limits of the Presidential Portfolio and its Implications for the Office on Missing Persons
(Verité Research, 2017-02)The Nineteenth Amendment (19A) to the Constitution placed limitations on the powers of the Executive President. This briefing note will examine these limitations in the context of the President’s powers to assign subjects ... -
Local Authorities Elections (Special Provisions) Bill - Voting Breakdown - Second Reading
(Manthri.lk, 2025-02-19)On February 17, 2025 the second reading of the Local Authorities Elections (Special Provisions) Bill was passed with a majority of 178 votes. The following compilation of infographics reflects the list of MPs that voted ... -
‘Locked-In’ to China: The Colombo Port City Project
(Stanford: Leadership Academy for Development, 2017-10)This case looks at the predicament of a small nation burdened by Chinese debt, accumulated by infrastructure projects under the aegis of China’s One Belt One Road initiative. By 2016, the government of Sri Lanka owed China ... -
Logistics and Services in the Sri Lankan Economy
(Manila : Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-10)Authors examine the growth, performance, and policy issues of the Sri Lankan service and logistics sectors. The government has clear priorities for these sectors, building on the country’s locational advantage. The policy ... -
Lohan Ratwatte: Credit Line for Vehicle Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/8/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: This is a credit line…If that credit line is not used, it will go to waste—it must be put to use. Our government will not go into debt by importing those vehicles. - Lohan Ratwatte, Newsfirst.lk, 12 June 2021 -
Looking beyond the Economic Transformation Bill: Three Steps Sri Lanka Can Take to Increase the Supply of High-Quality Investment Zones
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07)This note proposes three steps Sri Lanka could take to construct and manage high quality Investment Zones, drawing from regional and global best practices. First, is enacting a separate, overarching legislation to ... -
The lure of Chinese loans : Sri Lanka’s experiment with a special framework to finance its infrastructure investments
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-08)China was the leading provider of external finance to Sri Lanka for infrastructure development during 2010-2016 accounting for 37% of the total. Sri Lanka borrowed USD 5,895 million from China for infrastructure development ... -
The lure of Chinese loans : Sri Lanka’s experiment with a special framework to finance its infrastructure investments - Presentation
(2022-09-22)China was the leading provider of external finance to Sri Lanka for infrastructure development during 2010-2016 accounting for 37% of the total. Sri Lanka borrowed USD 5,895 million from China for infrastructure development ... -
MA Sumanthiran: Tamil journalists
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/20/2018)PARTLY TRUE: If I remember correctly, [in the past 20 years] 14 Tamil journalists have been murdered. - MA Sumanthiran, 25 October 2018, Mawbima -
Madhura Withanage: Tax and non-tax revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-09-25)TRUE: Especially, tax revenue increased by LKR 1,700 Bn in the first six months of 2024. That is a growth of 42.6%. We have been able to achieve a growth of 44.7% of the annual estimate. Also, non-tax revenue has increased ... -
Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants. - Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt
(factchecklka - Facebook, 3/21/2019)FALSE: "In the past four years, the UNP-led government has borrowed the equivalent of 50% of the total national debt that was outstanding as at the end of December 2014 from the loans taken in the six decades after gaining ... -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt-to-GDP
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-01)PARTLY TRUE: My government reduced the debt-to-GDP ratio from 90% at the end of 2005 to 69% at the end of 2014. Mahinda Rajapaksa, NewsFirst.lk, 8 December 2023 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: economic growth
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/10/2018)FALSE: In the nine years I was in power, I increased the GDP per capita of this country by a multiple of three. In that period, the economic growth rate was 7.4%. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, 25 November 2018, Derana TV -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Electricity access
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/16/2020)TRUE: We provided electricity to 99.9% of the country. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 24 June 2020 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Export Agriculture Crops
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2021)TRUE: The revenue from export agricultural crops stood at Rs. 63,000 million in 2019. Within one year we have been able to increase it to Rs. 73,000 million. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Dinamina, 3 March 2021 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Office on Missing Persons Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/3/2020)FALSE: “In August of 2016, without even allowing for a parliamentary debate on the matter, the Yahapalana government forcibly enacted the Office on Missing Persons Act.” -Mahinda Rajapaksa, Aruna, 29 June 2020 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Unbroken nine year economic boom
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-07-14)PARTLY TRUE: Our management of the economy resulted in an unbroken nine-year economic boom. We had no difficulty in paying off our debts […] Mahinda Rajapaksa, EconomyNext, 12 May 2024 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Women in universities
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/20/2019)TRUE: Today, the percentage of women studying in universities exceeds 50 percent. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 2 October 2019 -
Mahinda Rajapakse: Budget Deficit
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2020)FALSE: “…the budget deficit which my government brought down to 5.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, has increased to over 9.6 percent of the GDP by 2019… outstanding unpaid bills amounted to Rs. 243 billion, ...