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Harsha de Silva: Real Returns on EPF
(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 ...
Ashok Abeysinghe: Government Revenue Estimates
(www.factcheck.lk , 1/20/2023)
FALSE: …The [2023] budget presented this time is seeking the highest revenue in the entire history of Sri Lanka. Compared to last year, this year’s revenue shows an increase of 70%. In Sri Lanka, at no point has the revenue ...
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Vehicle imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/20/2023)
TRUE: ...within that period [2015-2020], we have brought 2,498,714 vehicles...worth Rs. 1,331.51 billion...We have taxed [them to the value of] 991.12 billion.
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, YouTube Page of Parliament of Sri ...
Harini Amarasuriya: Unpaid care work
(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. ...
Mano Ganesan: Food Insecurity
(www.factcheck.lk , 1/12/2023)
CORRECT: Food insecurity in Sri Lanka is highest in the estate sector at 51%, while it is 43% in the urban sector and 34% in the rural sector. The World Bank has reported that the country’s poverty rate has climbed to 26% ...
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: Fiscal stability
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/15/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: …we are coming step by step towards fiscal stability. Even the IMF calculated that for this first quarter, our primary account balance will be negative by Rs. 56 billion. But we have brought this quarter…to a ...
Susil Premajayantha: Efficiency of IMF process
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/26/2023)
BLATANTLY FALSE: On previous occasions, we obtained money from the IMF after pledging to fulfil their conditions...this time round, we had to first fulfil those conditions to obtain assistance. It was only Sri Lanka that ...
Manusha Nayanakkara: Rise in remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/11/2023)
TRUE: Sri Lankan migrant workers’ foreign remittances increased to US$ 568.3 million in March 2023 from US$ 318.4 million in March 2022. This is a 78.5% (US$ 249.9 million) increase compared to the inflows recorded in March ...
Gayantha Karunatilleka: Students-to-academic staff ratio
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/30/2023)
FALSE: Although the number of academic staff is dwindling [in recent months], the annual intake of students at universities has doubled since 2017.
Gayantha Karunatilleka, NewsFirst, 19 October 2023
Bandula Gunawardane: Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/8/2023)
TRUE: …. the Fiscal Management Responsibility Act No. 3 of 2003…had three main goals…to maintain the budget gap below 5%..... reducing public debt as a percentage of GDP to 65% by 2013, that is, in 10 years…. reducing the ...