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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 ...
Gayantha Karunatilleka: Income Inequality
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/29/2021)
TRUE: 35% of our country's national income is enjoyed by 10% of the population. - Gayantha Karunatilleka, Divaina, 30 March 2021
Nalaka Kottegoda: Fertiliser Consumption
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/10/2021)
FALSE: Sri Lanka had imported 574,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser in 2020… Sri Lanka has become the top chemical fertiliser user in South Asia. We use 284 kg of chemical fertiliser per hectare.- Nalaka Kottegoda, Daily ...
Ali Sabry: Tax revenue
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/9/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: It [tax revenue as a percentage of GDP] decreased over time, under all these governments [every government since 1981] and today it has collapsed to a value of 8.7%. Mohamed Ali Sabry, Asian Mirror YouTube ...
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
Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)
FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants.
- Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021
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
Kanchana Wijesekara: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk , 5/24/2022)
TRUE: Fuel Price will be revised from 3am today. Fuel pricing formula that was approved by the cabinet was applied to revise the prices. Price revision includes all costs incurred in importing, unloading, distribution to ...