Browsing Research Outputs by Subject "Mahinda Rajapaksa"

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    • The APRC: A Primer for Constitutional Consensus = සර්ව පාක්ෂික නියෝජිත කමිටුව: ව්‍යවස්ථාමය සම්මුතියකට ප්‍රවේශයක් 

      Arudpragasam, Amita; Nathaniel, Vidya; Chaaminda, Sumith; Mohammed, Rehana; Perera, Sarinda (Verité Research, 2016-04)
      This report is a historical study that aims to: 1. Explain the failure of successive attempts at state reform culminating in the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) process; and 2. Demonstrate that the proposals of ...

    • Budget Check 2021 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/17/2020)
      For the very first time in Sri Lanka, the FactCheck team at Verité Research conducted the inaugural #BudgetCheck2021. The team carried out live fact checking on claims made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his 2021 ...

    • 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

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt 

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      FactCheck       (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 

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      FactCheck       (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 

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      FactCheck       (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 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/16/2020)
      TRUE: We provided electricity to 99.9% of the country. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 24 June 2020

    • Mahinda Rajapaksa: Office on Missing Persons Act 

      FactCheck;S2413
      FactCheck       (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: Women in universities 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/20/2019)
      TRUE: Today, the percentage of women studying in universities exceeds 50 percent. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 2 October 2019