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Sri Lanka can escape crisis only by 2023-end: PM

by Janam Web Desk
Jul 6, 2022, 04:43 pm IST
in World, News

Colombo, July 6 (UNI) Sri Lanka’s economy is now shrinking and it cannot hope to come out of its present economic mess before the end of 2023, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned, adding that inflation was set to zoom to 60 per cent by the end of this year.

A somber Wickremesinghe also told Parliament here on Tuesday that Sri Lanka was presently negotiating with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as “a bankrupt nation” and hinted at privatizing many well known state-run companies now running in huge losses. “Our economy is currently shrinking. We are trying to reverse it. According to central bank statistics, our current economic growth rate is between negative 4 and negative 5. According to IMF, it is between negative 6 and negative 7. This is a serious situation.

“If we make a determined journey along this road map, we can achieve an economic growth rate of a negative 1 by the end of 2023,” he added.
After saying that the government’s total debt burden had shot up from Rs 17.5 trillion in 2021 to Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022, he said Sri Lanka was facing “the effects of many problems that have worsened in the past two or three years. These are not problems that can be solved in two days. “We are suffering from the effects of certain traditional ideas that have been followed in our country for many years. Therefore, as I mentioned earlier, we will have to face difficulties in 2023 as well. This is the truth.”

He admitted that the Sri Lankan economy has collapsed and underlined that Colombo was negotiating with the IMF “as a bankrupt country”. He said once the talks concluded successfully, the IMF will extend a loan spread over a period of four years.

“Our ultimate goal is to create a highly competitive social market economy. Here we also have examples to take from countries like China and Vietnam. They are countries that successfully maintain competitive socialist market economies.”

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