3 January 2021 | TITN Team
Sri Lanka is confronting an extending monetary and helpful emergency as expansion ascends to record levels, food costs rocket and its money vaults dry up.
As per media reports, the emergency looked by the public authority, drove by president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is partially brought about by the quick effect of the Covid emergency and the deficiency of the travel industry however is compounded by high government spending and tax reductions disintegrating state incomes, huge obligation reimbursements to China.
The World Bank estimates 500,000 people have fallen below the poverty line since the beginning of the pandemic, the equivalent of five years’ progress in fighting poverty.
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