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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
Sajith Premadasa: Fisheries Industry
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/1/2021)
TRUE: The fisheries industry contributes to 1.1% of Sri Lanka's GDP, according to the 2019 CBSL report. - Sajith Premadasa, Divaina, 3 June 2021
Bandula Gunawardana: Sathosa Losses
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/8/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: [Sathosa] was an institution that did not incur losses before 2015. Sathosa has lost 20 billion rupees during the last five years (2015 – 2019).
- Bandula Gunawardana, Daily News, 10 March 2021
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
Ramesh Pathirana: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/2/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: When compared with the countries in the South Asian region, the fuel price of our country is still lower than that of the other countries in the region. Among the countries in this region, only Pakistan provides ...
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 ...
Ruwan Wijewardene: Debt increase
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/28/2022)
TRUE: Some people in the present government say that the country has come to this situation because we [yahapalana government] took loans. 80% of the loans we took were used for settling the loans obtained by Mahinda ...
Eran Wickramaratne: Foreign investment
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/25/2021)
TRUE: There has been a big outflow of foreign investment from the stock exchange. In terms of rupee value, Rs. 51 billion outflows was registered in the year 2020…
- Eran Wickramaratne, Lanka Business Online, 18 January 2021
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 ...
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: CBSL plan
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/7/2022)
BLATANTLY FALSE: The Six-Month Road Map announced by Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) last year has proven to be a resounding success with expected inflows materialising. …..the envisaged inflows under the “Six-Month Road ...