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Lakshman Kiriella: Bond scandal assets freeze
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/11/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: The allegation is that the UNP caused a loss of LKR 10 billion through bonds. The country has not experienced a loss because the CBSL froze/impounded LKR 12 billion from Perpetual Treasuries. However, the ...
Harsha De silva: Government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/1/2020)
TRUE: …the government made a hue and cry [those days] saying that the debt rose by Rs. 5,700 billion in five years, didn’t they? However, during their time, it has risen by [approximately] Rs. 1,000 billion in just four ...
Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)
TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP.
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 2020
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: GDP growth
(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
Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)
FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.”
- C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020
Wimal Weerawansa: Net Export Earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/27/2020)
FALSE: For the first time since the open economy was introduced in 1977 by J.R. Jayawardena, the country’s export earnings exceeded import expenditure. - Wimal Weerawansa, Mawbima,13/07/2020
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
Sajith Premadasa: Women in politics
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/24/2020)
TRUE: …[we] have not been able to increase representation [of women] in parliament. Even today, representation of women in our parliament is at a level of 5.8%. Our government was able to increase representation of women ...
Prof. W.D. Lakshman: Banking Sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/30/2020)
TRUE - The banking sector remains strong with total capital adequacy ratio above 16 per cent, net stable funding ratio above 130 per cent, liquidity coverage ratio above 175 per cent and statutory liquid asset ratio above ...
Harini Amarasuriya: Female Labor Force Participation
(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 ...