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    • Emergency Regulations: Security or Suppression? 

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      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.

    • G.L. Peiris: Presidential Immunity under 19A 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)
      FALSE: As long as 19A is in force, the president has to waste his time in courts…That is why immunity is needed… - G.L. Peiris, Aruna, 8 September 2020

    • Gamini Lokuge: On the strength of EPF 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/22/2021)
      FALSE: The Employees Provident Fund has become the strongest fund in Asia today. - Gamini Lokuge, Parliament Hansard, 9 February 2021

    • Gap between Sinhala and Tamil press reporting (03-09 June) 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-06)
      The gap between the Sinhala and Tamil press during the week - infographic

    • Gap between Sinhala and Tamil press reporting (05-11 August 2019) 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-08)
      Difference between topics discussed in the Sinhala and Tamil press within 04 August and 11 August 2019

    • Gap between Sinhala and Tamil press reporting (1-7 July) 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-07)
      The grid containing topics that were discussed by the Sinhala and Tamil press during the week

    • Gap between Sinhala and Tamil press reporting (10-16 June) 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-06)
      A grid briefly explaining the topics discussed by the Sinhala and Tamil press during the week

    • Gap between Sinhala and Tamil press reporting (12-18 August 2019) 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-08)
      Difference between the topics discussed in the Sinhala and Tamil press between 12 - 18 August 2019

    • Gap between Sinhala and Tamil press reporting (14-30 June) 

      Media Team (Veritè Research, 2019-06)
      The grid containing main topics discussed by Tamil and Sinhala press during the week