Sri Lanka: Debt and Crisis of Survival
(Photo by Jalitha Hewage on Unsplash) | August 24, 2023 Sri Lanka has been faced with an unprecedented political and economic crisis since the beginning of 2022. The dominant narrative attributes the crisis to the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine conflict, China’s ‘debt trap diplomacy’ and – most importantly – the corruption and mismanagement of the…