Browsing Research Outputs by Subject "Harsha de Silva"

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    • Harsha de Silva: EPF and ETF 

      FactCheck.lk;E1713
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/25/2023)
      TRUE: The majority of Sri Lanka’s domestic debt is in treasury bonds. We have [almost 9,000 billion] worth of treasury bonds….44.5% of that is in banks….43% was borrowed from EPF & ETF. Harsha de Silva, Daily FT, 20 April 2023

    • Harsha de Silva: Loan Collateral 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/20/2020)
      Also, for the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, when Sri Lanka, as a sovereign state, asked the international community for a loan, they asked for collateral. This is because the international community has identified ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Multidimensional poverty 

      FactCheck.lk;P0091
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/14/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: The World Bank states that the poverty level which was at 13% in 2019 has by today, increased to at least 25%. The multidimensional Poverty Vulnerability of Oxford University and UNDP (sic) states that when ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Real Returns on EPF 

      FactCheck.lk;P0082
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/29/2023)
      TRUE: […] In the [EPF] Act itself it specifies 2.5% return. […] at the time inflation was at around 1 percent, if you look at 5 years prior to 1958, the average would have been 1 percent. […] Over the years, some years ...