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    • Gota-Meter: Tracking manifesto promises of Gotabaya Rajapaksa 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2021-11-24)
      These infographics show the progress of 153 trackable promises in the election manifesto of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. It includes the status of promises kept, partially kept, in progress and broken. It also highlights ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)
      FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President's Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2022)
      FALSE: I have not taken a cent in foreign loans during my two years in office. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Newswire, 7 January 2022,

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: GDP growth 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/2/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: Prior to 2015, the economic growth rate was between 7% and 8%, but by 2019, it fell below 2%. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Divaina, 16 June 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds 

      FactCheck;P0048
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)
      PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Misinformation on disability data 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2020)
      FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President’s Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)
      TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Release of military occupied land 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2019)
      FALSE: "We are the people who released 90% of the land" - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Inaugural Press Conference, 16 October 2019

    • Government Deficit Has Decreased By Rs. 32 Billion from the Years 2020 to 2021 

      Ravindu, De Silva (2022-09-20)
      The recently released figures for 2021 show that government revenue has fallen from 9.2% of GDP in 2020 to 8.7% of GDP in 2021. Meanwhile, government expenditure has decreased from 23.0% of GDP in 2020 to 21.0% of GDP in ...

    • Government Expenditure from 2012-2021 

      Ravindu, De Silva (Verité Research, 2022-07-26)
      Government Expenditure increased by 126% over the past decade. Expenditure increase by LKR 59 BN in 2021.

    • Government Revenue and Grants Over The Past Decade​ 

      Ravindu, De Silva (Verité Research, 2022-07-12)
      Revenue and Grants declined by LKR 91 BN from 2020 to 2021.​

    • Government Revenue Loss due to the Sugar Tax Cut 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-03-07)
      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 ...

    • The Government Spent Only 10.6% of The Itukama COVID-19 Fund Balance 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (2022-01-10)
      On the 23rd of March 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksha initiated the “Itukama” COVID-19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund. The fund’s purpose was to “strengthen the mitigation activities aimed at controlling the spread ...

    • Government’s strength in parliament 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2022-04-07)
      This infographic shows how the government power changed after 43 MPs announced that they would act independently in the parliament. As of 5 April 2022, its strength is as follows: government 116, Independent 43 and opposition ...

    • Government’s strength in parliament – Changes and breakdowns 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2022-04-22)
      This set of infographics show how the government power changed after 43 MPs announced that they would act independently in the parliament, breakdown of the government MPs as well as independent MPs. As of 20 April 2022, ...

    • Harin Fernando: Chinese tourists 

      FactCheck.lk;P0073
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/13/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: If each Chinese tourist spent $5,000 that could raise a figure comparable to the recent International Monetary Fund bailout…If you really look at it, tourism can get Sri Lanka out of this mess. Harin Fernando, ...

    • Harin Fernando: employment trends 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 10/12/2018)
      TRUE: Minister Fernando pointed out that employment has increased from 7.7 million in 2014 to 8.2 million in 2017. - Harin Fernando, 3 October 2018, Daily News

    • Harini Amarasuriya: Female Labor Force Participation 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)
      TRUE: ..according to the 2009 [sic, 2019] Annual Report from the Central Bank, the female labour force participation rate of Sri Lanka was 34.5%. It was 73% for men... We have one of the lowest female labour force participation ...

    • Harini Amarasuriya: Unpaid care work 

      FactCheck.lk;P0078
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/17/2023)
      TRUE: …there are a few factors that are not considered when measuring the contribution to the labour force…[a] large chunk of unremunerated work done by women is the main type of work that is not included in these statistics. ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Budget Deficit 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/13/2021)
      TRUE: CBSL Annual Report states Sri Lanka's budget deficit for 2020 [was a] huge 11%. But it should be even higher at 14%. - Harsha de Silva, Harsha de Silva's Official Twitter, 1 May 2021