MP Ganesan right when he spoke, on the gap between the estate sector and the rest.
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Food insecurity in Sri Lanka is highest in the estate sector at 51%, while it is 43% in the urban sector and 34% in the rural sector. The World Bank has reported that the country’s poverty rate has climbed to 26% and is at 53% in the estates.
Daily Mirror | November 21, 2022
Posted on: 12 January, 2023
True
MP Handunnetti’s data on urbanisation: quoted correctly, interpreted wrong
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74% of the population of Sri Lanka lives a rural lifestyle/in a rural setting.
Divaina | October 15, 2018
Posted on: 2 November, 2018
Partly True