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1.2K. 104K views Streamed 1 year ago #aljazeeraenglish #ajstream #srilanka. People across Sri Lanka are struggling to get hold of daily essentials as the country’s faces its worst economic...
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- How Did Sri Lanka Get Here?
- What Impact Has The Crisis Had on Sri Lanka?
- What Steps Can Sri Lanka Take to Alleviate The situation?
Sri Lanka has had economic trouble for the greater part of the last decade. It received a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in 2009 and again in 2016, on the condition that it would control its debt and reduce it to 5 percent of its GDP by 2021. The situation worsened due to the twin impacts of the 2019 Easter bombings and Covid-1...
The economic crisis has had a crippling effect on the country, with shortages of essential goods, high inflation, and more, leading to mass protests and resignations from the president’s cabinet. 1. Shortages of essential goods |Sri Lanka has faced acute shortages of essential items such as fuel and medicines as it struggles to import goods due to ...
Resumption of imports that help tackle the shortages of essential goods seems to be of the utmost importance. Without essential medicines, fuels, and food grains, any attempt to return to a state of normalcy will be futile. However, this will only be possible after it refinances its debt and gets a bailout either from its neighboring countries or t...
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Jul 6, 2022 · Politics. Sri Lanka says it is 'bankrupt' as financial crisis ravaging the country deepens. Bill Bostock. Jul 6, 2022, 3:06 AM PDT. Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe....
May 11, 2022 · 11 May 2022. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has turned into deadly violence, which has killed eight people and wounded more than 200 so far. The country’s powerful Prime Minister Mahinda...
Mar 29, 2023 · Reuters. Mr Wickremesinghe has been prime minister six times, without seeing out a full term in office. The mass protests have subsided, but the new president is trying to deal with a huge...