Lee harris writes that the looming food crisis is being cast as an inevitable consequence of an exogenous shock war in the world's bread basket. Developing countries like srilanka face compounding cri s as richer countries wind down pandemic ara monetary and fiscal supports and tighten their balance sheets. strained post pandemic budgets, high debt and low foreign exchange reserves are a flammable mix. Are there echoes here of the lead up to the latin american debt crisis of the 19 eighties, or more recently, the so called taper tantrum of 20 13?