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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 ...
Mahinda Rajapakse: Budget Deficit
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2020)
FALSE: “…the budget deficit which my government brought down to 5.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, has increased to over 9.6 percent of the GDP by 2019… outstanding unpaid bills amounted to Rs. 243 billion, ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/5/2022)
TRUE: Foreign remittances increased during the first 5 months of 2021. It increased by USD 450Mn. However, it started to drop from the sixth month onwards… This January, it [remittances] reduced by 62%.– Anura Kumara ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wimal Weerawansa: MCC agreement
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/13/2019)
FALSE: …last week, the [US] Millennium Challenge Agreement was signed in Parliament. Once signed, a special economic corridor will be built from Trincomalee to Colombo Port.
- Wimal Weerawansa, Ada, 7 November 2019
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)
FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019
GL Peiris: 19A Dissolution
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)
TRUE: Before the 19th Amendment, when a new president was elected, he had the power to dissolve parliament and to call for an election to elect a parliament that would be in alignment with his policies… [After the 19th ...
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Loans from Japan
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/8/2020)
TRUE: As a country, Japan has given the most in loans at low interest rates.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Aruna, 16 June 2020
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Tourism earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/16/2022)
FALSE: Tourism is a 10-billion-dollar industry, and for the last two years we have not been able to enjoy the fruits of that. – Ajith Nivad Cabraal, Bloomberg, 18 February 2022.