Sri Lanka’s unsustainable external debt patterns

To a large extent, Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is an outcome of the nation’s reliance on creditor nations and multilateral agencies for managing its chronic fiscal and current-account deficits. The country’s ratio of external debt to GDP has been above 50% for a long time. The debt structure is also fragile as short-term debt and […]

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Pakistani hospital overwhelmed as water-borne illnesses spread

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