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  1. Sri Lanka: Elections, debt and the struggle for democracy

    the burden of debt repayment, by securing long-term relief from bilateral creditors (including Japan, ...

  2. Sri Lanka: Austerity for the masses, impunity for the robbers

    queues for fuel and gas — in some places kilometres long — sometimes with no relief. People have ... the World Bank initiated its debt relief scheme. The IMF followed suit with its program, the Heavily ... Indebted Poor Countries initiative. By 2001, $34 billion in debt relief was provided to 23 countries, 19 of ...

  3. Sri Lanka: Women workers and the Gota Go Gama uprising

    previous government [of President Maithripala Sirisena (2015–19)] tried to provide some relief, because it ...