Dr. Dunusinghe compares growth in export growth: Correctly but not appropriately
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No significant progress can be seen yet in the growth of exports [during the current IMF programme]. Exports have recorded an annual growth of 6.75% from 1978 to 2024. What has been shown over the past nine months is also a similar growth in exports.
Aruna | November 6, 2025
Posted on: 14 March, 2026
Partly True
Sunanda Bandara bowls a wide on the widening trade deficit
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[…] The gap between export earnings and import expenditure is gradually widening due to the country lifting all import bans except for vehicle imports in the recent past. […] The trade deficit of the first nine months of this year is USD 1,141 million more than last year’s.
| November 11, 2024
Posted on: 29 January, 2025
False