Torched: Sri Lanka's Economy / 2022 #SriLanka 'We can afford only one meal a day, because our wage is low, only 800 rupees. It is enough only to buy two flatbreads and a pound of d

Torched: Sri Lanka's Economy / 2022
#SriLanka

'We can afford only one meal a day, because our wage is low, only 800 rupees. It is enough only to buy two flatbreads and a pound of dhal. We don’t have enough money to eat properly,’ says Marimuttu Kumarasamy, a tea picker from Sri Lanka. Poor people on the island face absolute disaster – their low wages are not enough to feed themselves.

That was caused by the US embargo on Russian oil, leading to fuel shortages in Sri Lanka. As a result, the prices skyrocketed, putting people on the brink of starvation. How is the country going to recover?