China’s Role in Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis
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The Economic Crisis in Shilanka
Anush wast named forty under forty most influential shrilankins by eschelon magazine, anouch. Some have said that it's the most severe economic crisis that shilanka has experienced since it achieved independence in 19 forty eight. The government at the time took a series of bad policy tisitions to preserve foreign currency reserves. And famously, agriagro chemicals were baned on almost overnight as part of a shift to organic farming. It was all done to pacify e s g lobbies, but they called it 'home grown', and we didn't have the dollars just because we didn’t have the dollars. That was perhaps when the electorate began to resent the government
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