Simple steps to destroy an economy, starve a people, and bring a nation to its knees.
Over 6 million of the 20 million living in Sri Lanka don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Inflation is running at almost 60 percent, turning basic necessities into unaffordable luxuries. Nearly 80 percent of the country has cut down the number of meals they eat per day or has switched to less nutritious food.
Many are fleeing the country. They have been joined by the now ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, deposed when protesters stormed his palace in the capital.
Read more at “Sri Lanka: How to Ruin a Nation”