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Patali Champika Ranawaka per capita income
(factchecklka - Facebook, 10/11/2018)
FALSE: Today, it [Sri Lanka] is a middle income country with a per capita income of US $ 13,000. This is the highest per capita income in the region.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, 3 October 2018, Daily News
Ranil Wickremesinghe - Mercer Index
(factchecklka - Facebook, 9/9/2018)
TRUE: Although cities across Asia are growing apace, only three (Singapore, Tokyo, and Kobe) are in the top 50 of the Mercer Quality of Living Index. Colombo was the highest ranked South Asian city, but still only stood ...
Sunil Handunnetti: rural population
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/5/2018)
PARTLY TRUE: 74% of the population of Sri Lanka lives a rural lifestyle/in a rural setting.
- Sunil Handunnetti, 15 October 2018, Divaina
Bandula Gunawardana: Bond Commission report
(factchecklka - Facebook, 11/14/2018)
BLATANTLY FALSE: In early February 2018, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP and party spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran sabotaged an adjournment debate on the treasury bond scam report. The newspaper went on to say ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Provincial GDP = අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක - පළාත් දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදිතය = அனுரா குமார திசாநாயக்க - மாகாண மொத்த உள்நாட்டு உற்பத்தி
(factchecklka - Facebook, 10/4/2018)
BLATANTLY FALSE: According to the Annual Report published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the Western Province contributes to 52% of the GDP of the country…The rest of the provinces in the country collectively ...
Mangala Samaraweera: Media freedom
(factchecklka - Facebook, 11/2/2018)
TRUE: Sri Lanka’s rank in the World Press Freedom Index has moved from 165 to 131.
- Mangala Samaraweera, 28 September 2018, Divaina
Maithripala Sirisena - Judicial Independence
(factchecklka - Facebook, 10/17/2018)
PARTLY TRUE: Sri Lanka is a country with a strong democratic foundation and the present government has also strengthened the independence of the judiciary. A recent survey on independence of the judiciary shows that Sri ...
Bandula Gunawardana: Singapore FTA
(factchecklka - Facebook, 11/19/2018)
BLATANTLY FALSE: As a result of the gazette notification 2069/2, nearly 4000 products can be imported with zero tariffs as per the Sri Lanka–Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
- Bandula Gunawardana, 17 October 2018, Divaina
Harin Fernando: employment trends
(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
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