| dc.contributor.author | FactCheck | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-07T13:38:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-07T13:38:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 11/17/2020 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://archive.veriteresearch.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/3384 | |
| dc.description.abstract | For the very first time in Sri Lanka, the FactCheck team at Verité Research conducted the inaugural #BudgetCheck2021. The team carried out live fact checking on claims made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his 2021 Budget Speech on 17 November 2020.
The team fact checked a total of eight statements from the Budget Speech. Of these, five statements were graded True, one Partly True, one Misleading, and one False. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | www.factcheck.lk | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | FactCheck; | |
| dc.subject | Budget Speech 2021 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Worker remittances | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tax revenue | en_US |
| dc.subject | Samurdhi payments | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pharmaceutical imports | en_US |
| dc.subject | Import expenditure on milk powder | en_US |
| dc.subject | Small-scale tea plantations | en_US |
| dc.subject | Access to safe drinking water | en_US |
| dc.subject | Trade deficit | en_US |
| dc.subject | Budget allocations | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mahinda Rajapaksa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Foreign employment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Skilled overseas workers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Government policy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tea production | en_US |
| dc.subject | China | en_US |
| dc.subject | India | en_US |
| dc.subject | Japan | en_US |
| dc.title | Budget Check 2021 | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Fact checking the budget speech | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
| dc.project.code | MFC02 | en_US |
