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    • GMOA: COVID-19 Statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/2/2020)
      FALSE: “We are in a worst situation compared to Italy at the end of the first 7 days (from 1st Local Case). Peak of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka can be expected during New Year Season if we do not take more aggressive decisions ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)
      FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President's Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2022)
      FALSE: I have not taken a cent in foreign loans during my two years in office. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Newswire, 7 January 2022,

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: GDP growth 

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      FactCheck       (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

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)
      PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ...

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Misinformation on disability data 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2020)
      FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President’s Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)
      TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ...

    • 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

    • Harin Fernando: Chinese tourists 

      FactCheck.lk;P0073
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/13/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: If each Chinese tourist spent $5,000 that could raise a figure comparable to the recent International Monetary Fund bailout…If you really look at it, tourism can get Sri Lanka out of this mess. Harin Fernando, ...

    • Harin Fernando: employment trends 

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      FactCheck       (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

    • Harini Amarasuriya: Female Labor Force Participation 

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      FactCheck       (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 ...

    • Harini Amarasuriya: Unpaid care work 

      FactCheck.lk;P0078
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/17/2023)
      TRUE: …there are a few factors that are not considered when measuring the contribution to the labour force…[a] large chunk of unremunerated work done by women is the main type of work that is not included in these statistics. ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Budget Deficit 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/13/2021)
      TRUE: CBSL Annual Report states Sri Lanka's budget deficit for 2020 [was a] huge 11%. But it should be even higher at 14%. - Harsha de Silva, Harsha de Silva's Official Twitter, 1 May 2021

    • Harsha de Silva: EPF and ETF 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/25/2023)
      TRUE: The majority of Sri Lanka’s domestic debt is in treasury bonds. We have [almost 9,000 billion] worth of treasury bonds….44.5% of that is in banks….43% was borrowed from EPF & ETF. Harsha de Silva, Daily FT, 20 April 2023

    • Harsha De silva: Government debt 

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      FactCheck       (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 ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Inflation in Asia 

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      FactCheck        (www.factcheck.lk  , 3/3/2022)
      TRUE: We [Sri Lanka] have the highest inflation in Asia as of now. - Harsha de Silva, Ada Derana, 1 February 2022 

    • Harsha de Silva: Loan Collateral 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/20/2020)
      Also, for the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, when Sri Lanka, as a sovereign state, asked the international community for a loan, they asked for collateral. This is because the international community has identified ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Multidimensional poverty 

      FactCheck.lk;P0091
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/14/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: The World Bank states that the poverty level which was at 13% in 2019 has by today, increased to at least 25%. The multidimensional Poverty Vulnerability of Oxford University and UNDP (sic) states that when ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Real Returns on EPF 

      FactCheck.lk;P0082
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/29/2023)
      TRUE: […] In the [EPF] Act itself it specifies 2.5% return. […] at the time inflation was at around 1 percent, if you look at 5 years prior to 1958, the average would have been 1 percent. […] Over the years, some years ...

    • Harshana Rajakaruna: MPs not speaking in Parliament 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/28/2019)
      TRUE: As a whole, 95% of MPs have spoken [in parliament in 2018]. It is only 5% who haven't spoken. - Harshana Rajakaruna, Silumina, 3 March 2019