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    • Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.” - Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020

    • The Divide (Public Senti-meter Analysis) Measuring Impact: Quarterly Report: February - May 2019 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-06)
      The manner in which the SInhala and Tamil press are divided in their reportage on several issues pertaining to Sri Lanka.

    • Divide - Sinhala Headings - May 09, 2019 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/9/2019)
      Infographic of the headlines published in the Sinhala press on 2019 May 09. Featured newspapers - Divaina, Lankadeepa, Ada

    • The divide between the Sinhala and Tamil press headlines on 09 May 2019 

      Divide Frontpage;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/9/2019)
      Difference between headlines in Sinhala and Tamil press. Main story - Sinhala - Swords recovered in Maligawatte Main story - Tamil - President Maithripala Sirisena in Sainthamaruthu says he will not allow terrorism

    • Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe: IMF 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 6/16/2022)
      TRUE: An Extended Fund Facility (EFF) - which allows longer repayment periods - may be best suited to the country, it typically requires deeper structural reforms. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Daily News, 19 April 2022.

    • Dr. P.K.G Harishchandra: Reserves 

      FactCheck.lk;P0099
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-29)
      PARTLY TRUE: “[…] We've been able to build up reserves to 4.4 billion by the end of last year.” Assistant Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) P. K. G. Harischandra, CBSL Monetary Policy Review No. 01 of 2024, 23 ...

    • Dullas Alahapperuma: Forex Earnings 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/7/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: The largest foreign exchange earners contributing USD 7 billion to the economy of this country are the women of our country who perform drudgery in the Middle East. Number two is the apparel industry. USD 5.6 ...

    • Dullas Alahapperuma: IMF 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk , 2/17/2022)
      TRUE: It was in 1950 that we entered into an agreement with the IMF to obtain its membership. As a member country, from 1960 until now, we have carried out certain transactions with the IMF on 16 occasions. I recall that ...

    • Emergency Regulations: Security or Suppression? 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 4/6/2019)
      The entity contains writeups in all three languages and images of newspaper excerpts on the press coverage of emergency regulations imposed by the government. It also includes infographics in all three languages on the ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne - Ministry of Defence Expenditure 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-01-26)
      TRUE: When considering the Ministry of Defence, we spent 7% of the total budget for 2022 on it [Ministry of Defence] ... 60% of that goes to pay wages…Sri Lanka is one out of ten countries that has the greatest number of ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne - Passport Ranking 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-22)
      PARTLY TRUE: [The] Sri Lankan passport [is] …97th among global passports…What does it mean? It means that…you have access to 40 countries without a visa. Sri Lanka has very little access to other countries to get a visa ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne - Remittances 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/12/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: If we look at remittances, the highest amount of remittances have been received in 2016, 2017, 2018. Thereafter, some arrived in 2020 and after that, it has declined steadily. Remittances peaked at around USD ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Excise taxes 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/12/2024)
      PARTLY TRUE: The government, despite taking the path of revenue-based stabilisation, has fallen significantly short of its targets. For instance, excise revenues have fallen short by approximately 43%, with collection at ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Female Labour Force Participation 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/24/2019)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s Labour Force Participation (LFP) was 36% for women versus 75% for men in 2016, which is the 14th largest gender gap in LFP globally. In 2016, young women have the highest unemployment rate in Sri Lanka; ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Foreign investment 

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      FactCheck       (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

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Reserves 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/24/2022)
      TRUE: Compared to 2019 and 2021, the decrease in foreign reserves is 80% in Sri Lanka. But other countries in the [South Asian] region have seen an escalation of their reserves. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 25 January 2022

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Sri Lanka's record cost of interest 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/30/2021)
      TRUE: 70% of government revenue is spent on interest on loan repayment. Lebanon is the only country in the world that pays higher interest than Sri Lanka as a percentage of national revenue. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Tourism Percentage of GDP 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 7/10/2019)
      TRUE: Sri Lanka’s tourism sector accounts for 5% of gross domestic product. - Eran Wickramaratne, Dinamina, 22 May 2019

    • Ethics Eye: Bukiya - 27 February 2020 

      Verite Research (2020-02-27)
      ඉරිදා මව්බිම පුවත්පතේ පළවන 'බුකිය' නම් වන කොලමෙන් උපුටා ගත් කොටස් කිහිපයක් මෙහි දක්වා ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානයට පාත්‍ර විය යුතු කරුණු කිහිපයක් සාකච්ඡා කෙරේ.