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Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 -
How did the Sinhala and Tamil press front page headings capture the recent tensions on 14 May 2019?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/14/2019)Difference between headlines of Sinhala and Tamil press. Main headline - Sinhala - Islandwide curfew following tensions in Kuliyapitiya, Bingiriya, Hettipola (Lankadeepa. Ada, Mawbima, Divaina, Resa, Dinamina) Main headline ... -
Hybrid courts (un)wanted
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 3/5/2019)The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English on the press coverage pertaining to the hybrid court system suggested by the UNHRC. The entry also contains six newspaper excerpts regarding the issue.