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a good salary, but i no longer can manage with that. yeah, no gun when we get up in the morning or the prices have double do, we're done. now we only get half of what our sellers could get us before this local people. the fault is not with my job or the salary, i get to do it. the problem is with the rising push that selected and end on the bank and bug a thought. again, joining the conversation to help us understand what an economic crisis in sri lanka looks like to day. we have manella, he, me and hasha walk or free of ye to the stream. me now please introduce yourself to out of the audience. i assure they know who you are, just remind them in for those to do. i've been in journalism for something like that. he is now right out of school and a little over half of that with 0. so i've been reporting on chill anchor for that time for the channel. so glad to have you on board li heaney. welcome to the stream . please introduce yourself to our international audience. i pleasure to be in conversation with you on the new fernando antoniette. lo and i haven't spoke on

zillow member, representing the opposition yet to hattie and hello hoshal. introduce yourself track global audience. i this is hi shadley silva. i'm a member of parliament representing the opposition. i was previously in government, a non cabinet minister of economically fall pleasantly here. i said, guess what i wanted to really get from you is what does an economic crisis niche look like? what does it feel like? what is the experience of that alone we supposed to cover? who just did a list of what it is like in sri lanka to day happened? listen me now and then come and meet any of the back of your thoughts and new experiences. tape food shortly. yes. you know, gas shortage. yes. we have suicide here in georgia. yes. we are new from shorthand . yes. we have you been in georgia? yes. so yeah, for the life is really bad and people are some of the people. some of the families

me know away without the means it needs. and this is maybe i've been trying to be some consensus on the 45. these surprises have been rising as you heard that lists, but it's not just the fact that it's the prices that are rising. there are shortages, people essentially go to the shop. they can buy the powder. obviously the amount and the quantity of goods they can buy for the limited amount of money is getting less and less. and obviously salaries are pretty much as, as they have been. so people are finding, finding that they're buying power has reduced. they're also having issues of sort of thing, essential, good things like fuel cooking, gas and more recently medicines and particular essential food items. they very much difficult because your average families are having to spend the last time in hughes

. certain families have complain that you know, the mothers in bonds, the fathers in another sometimes it's the ality that we are finding. we've seen it over the recent weeks and it's making people very, very angry because sometimes not just is the fact that you know, things shooting up in price the sometimes even if you have the money and you spend hours and hours in hughes, you still get what you want me, can you remember when the economic crises started to bite, where you spent a big chunk of your day queuing for goods? when can you say this is what it started? so this economy crises, it was something that was born prior. i would say 18 months back, it was born by anybody to go by is that true? lack of will be going into a crisis and that might lead to situation. but there might be that before, and the price of goods will rise and also be saw the government down president lee

printing money, which actually led to this inflation and decide what that situation that we are currently in. so this is a situation, i wouldn't say something that shocked overnight, but it was coming and the government could have taken corrective measures, but sadly, it didn't happen and he'll be out today. unfortunately, the people are struggling to manage their day to day lives. half of the day being spending on cuba struggling to feed decades. the 3 me all this morning, medium in to prices, as well as more time workers. everybody middle income to low income. every sick time has come to us because the government has been unable to provide the b. it seeks for the functioning of the country. hossa. it's interesting that he said a 2 months ago, there was this prediction. could that knowledge have saved,

shall anchor from where it is right now, or would you still be in exactly the same place? because, of course, as a cosy pandemic, 2 and a lot of the tories it, that was $10000.00. it was coming to. she'll anchor, there isn't not money there for the government to draw from. well, this could have been avoided. this need not have happened. in fact, i made a long speech as the opening speaker for the opposition. when the 2021 budget was presented in november of 2020 and i urge the government to seek the support of the i m f. because what we currently have is our toxic combination of a debt on hand and a liquidity crisis. so you're right. yes, we lost some what is on dollars, but due to the mismanagement after currency and the remittances actually failed shock. people started sending money

through the black market. that created a discrepancy in the officially on the black market. then huh. that liquidity crisis caused a government to stop using that. he so see that now that he says have fallen door, almost absolutely nothing. so it is a mismanagement of the economy. yes, the panoramic played some role icon, denied that. but this certainly could have been avoided when you said, i'm just going to same analogy. i know we were working on this to try and get a voice from the collision. come at to come and join us and. and we tried really hard because we wanted to have that voice in, it's really important conversation. we weren't able to do that. but just thinking about how the government, the clinician coming out, is handling this crisis. a thought of saying this is mismanagement. what are you

seeing again, there are obviously a certain amount of challenges that the government has had to face. it's not something that hasn't been an easy thing, not just called the government here in chicago, but as a global phenomenon, you know, price rises, shortages potential goods, food energy is being seen across the board. and for the government here they have over the a sort of a double whammy. if we will make you have to remember that she had this devastating terrorist attack in 2019 almost 300 people were killed in a series of coordinated boma attacks on easter sunday. 2019 and that in itself does the 1st blow on the economy in terms of affecting in a major way tourism because for months on end, you know, people were taken back. they weren't sure of what exactly is going on. and that the

deal quite the serious blow we were just beginning as an economy also to recover that's not to say the financial houses in order that were sort of cracked and issues. but that seat of attack, the deal is serious low. and the government had to deal with the consequences of that job, you know, maybe 10 months or so while things were beginning at a low fall, slowly into place. if they got back with it as well, that is not to say that it is the kind of reason or the excuse that things are falling apart. did deal a blow, but definitely in terms of the way the manage things. oh, as how she says manage things that are quite a few people across the board that feels that things could have been had much better the they could have actually worked with a much broader people, not just, you know, gone down there or sort of solutions we start looking at the big picture so that

a general feeling that things could have. all right, let me, let me show you something on my laptop, la heaney, have a look at this. this is a community meal share that it's here on my laptop. this is a tweet i want to share with you. and then with this tweak goes alongside a comment that nitika sent to us, because she's seeing whether you decide this is government mismanagement, or covey, or loss of taurus doors. there are people in need and she'll anchor right now and she's trying to help them. i really want to get your take on what it is that the communities doing for themselves and thought that they have to do for themselves. he's in a dk festival community. i was initiated by myself and my friends and family to support the student is very difficult time. we understand that the economic price is in sri lanka. many homes right now. so what we do is take walk meals into people's homes when they request it. even if they do not request, if we send out

a notification through certain community leaders and we ask them to allow us to support them during this time, the heaney go ahead. yeah. so there are many informal informing me there are a lot of support services that are happening in the country. like, for example, if you take the form of a, there are certain initiatives taken by 10 of your organizations, different labs. they intervene to support and not just buy food, but to assist in education in terms of that also in terms of covering their day to day expenses. so i would say from the government, but say there is no such is not direct initiatives, but in formal sector. there are some initiatives that are being taken to assist. i'm just got to ye because our audience had taken part in the conversation as well . hush, let me just put this one to you. i have feel fast. the new car is far seeing it, savings vanish, and purchasing power decline. because feeling a brain drain,

it could take some need to get re economy back on track your thoughts briefly. how shall i ask? that is absolutely true because when i repeat depreciate by almost 40 percent, and if you look at the curb market, the black market, the test appreciate and far more than that, what it means is people savings have diminished so sure that that is, that is what's going on and even today i was coming out of a small cafe, a cup of coffee, and 2 young men came up to me and said, huh, you know, i'm 32 years old and i'm gonna id work and i want to leave. what do you think? i should do, and i hear this all the time and it's very sad. but i want to also add something to,

i mean, as said, and that is yes, the dollars not flowing in did have an impact, but it was not really that, that trigger this crisis. what trigger the crisis wasn't the responsible attack. scott that came before the pandemic, which caused a massive hole in the treasury of about one 3rd, that a revenue that was lost. and in order to fill that hole, the central band started printing money. and when people like us want the central bank, i just asked because i understand they plebian, can you just print money? isn't that disastrous? it is absolutely disasters. this is what you learn in a principal, the sofa macroeconomics, about the central bank continued to see to the b. but look, and you know this,

you not cause inflation. and they have been that so much money. just to give you a sense of how much i, while, while the economy for the last 2 years go by point one percent money supply. that is all the money that is available in this economy has grown by 41 percent. so it is no surprise that prices are going up and when you say a prices, it includes the prize of u. s. dollars. so, so therefore, this has been a man made disaster. and i wonder, also add in the middle of the pandemic, the government decided one fine day overnight. they were going to band the importation of fertilizer. and that just was a death blow to agriculture. and what we're hearing is that with this of us,

in that ice producing areas, harvest has come down perhaps by 40 to 60 percent. huh. if i know if i made a thing to chat, that the banning of fertilizer wasn't going on a whim, it was, they wanted that to be organic fat life was ala banning non organic satellite. as i understand, is that correct? yes, i'm in your car in the was there is no counting the one that has a fully organic agriculture sector. nothing. no. well right. so a lot of lot of people who know about this experts, the professors okay. also door door. so i wasn't sure if you've put a spotlight on where you think the government is being deficient. i'm going to remind people that you are an opposition politician. so this is your job. in the meantime, me now i've just been looking on twitter algebra english, have a look here on my laptop. we have a developing story placing tra, lanka, flying, tear gas and water cannons. dispos, huge crowds. protesting near the president's residence in colombo,

you have done reporting at protest and demonstrations. i'm just going to remind our audience, some of the stories that you filed, this one in particular, was that a demonstration? quite recently. let's take a look. another day, and another valley with thousands of angry people taking to the streets into the longer they came from around the country. desperate to be heard without municipal damage. loc, grenada, people are facing hardships. even those who have money don't have goods to buy children, students, parents, everyone is facing problems. several of the crowds carried banners that said 70 full years of good option. enough is enough. people are crying, patients are dying, and the government is lying. oh, the government, as a father the people have had enough me and he did johnny that the big one to make a deal choice on the new government that good up it is a so we have ongoing process and demonstrations of current protests outside the

president's palace how is the government responding, min l, to all of this criticism? obviously, not very happy camper at this time because this being the series of demonstrations very large show of numbers if you like. and the one that you saw was affiliated to political groups that were one or 2 sort of massive scale protest i've seen in recent years. something like 35000 people, but one by one of the main opposition parties. in fact, that is part of the g b that we saw on the 15th of march. then the protest is just seen this week. thousands of pharma congregating in the north central sort of city of polo not, which is very much a, one of the back of the agricultural part of the country. and again, it comes back to that fertilize a band that you referred to earlier. the fact that literally overnight the

government brought in a ban on chemical fertilizer on we decide and pesticide. we thought as much as a, by your leave without discussing it, with farmers without, you know, testing the water, so to speak, to find out what people thought to look at, seizing it in. because that's what the go to roger election manifesto did talk about a green agriculture moving to, you know, held the growing, growing practices and things like that. so he did talk about 10 years. but having put that aside and bringing in this band overnight, really to farmers by surprise, they really struggled to find the proper fertilizer with decades. and they could, they had all of these chemical fertilizers products through them, and they got used to it. in fact, one of the bomb was we talked to at the valley the other day it said look, it's like a drug addict. you can. 5 to expect a drug and the just to go cold turkey overnight after, you know, he's been used to that much of projects in the system. it's just not going happen.

so this is something that really sort of affected and hit farmers and you see that angle when they come together because they've just sort of harvest the loss of that data i talked about in the center province has harvested that crop. and the numbers that we're hearing, as partially referred to earlier as anything from of i've heard 40 percent passions that up to 60 percent. so that is evidence. even though we haven't heard the official final figures yet from the government and institutions that the harvest have fallen in a major way. and this is obviously getting directly to the livelihoods of thousands of people in those agriculture communities. now i just want to get some thoughts from you about present roger pac sir, because i'm going to play a little light of him talking about asking the i m f for help box. the whole policy economic policy was relying to was we can do this alone,

we're going to get financing from not just from within the region, but for with in sri lanka that didn't work out. he's back tracking a little bit. now he's back tracking a lot. what do you make of the decisions that he's been making and then i'm going to play his voice. and his approach that he's taking right now leaning you start? yeah. so it was, is this government came into office. they've had this whole looking approach as opposed to, you know, having an outward looking approach because they had this one point is even everything can be done within the country. even also in this was a managing the did crisis. so the government wasn't quite reluctant to go to the international assistance. and also we thought we've seen that was the, one of the main issues was for a long time, from time to time, the people to see changes from government to government. what is the changes? so when this particular president came into office, i mean they presented that manifesto, the policies that are brought forward was somewhat different to the previous

governments. so this, this particular change effect had the economy. now very large scale and how about the way they brought in those policies. they were not in a position to sustain in that meeting. 3 and that going to a good option mismanagement, all connected together, i would say has led to the so called economy crisis. and it is something that they could have avoided. but it is she a she on planned and lack of strategy, lack of taking advice from a professionals and not having the right people in the right place to advise. so, i mean, the guy has always been a country which has a broad chad chad maintain much shade international relations would go to countries and not just speeding to certain nations, but the inclination to a certain countries beach also has not acted in favor. i mean, if i, if i might put the president in the show because i'm but he wasn't able to join us

. all he spokespeople i was able to join is because this is how can use framing how he's going to tackle the economic issue. economic crises, inter lanka, have a listen, have a look other mile, obama company, a mule got marker, i am well aware of the shortages of essential items and the increase in prices. i'm also aware of issue such as gas shortage is fuel shortages and power cuts. i am very sensitive to the many sufferings the people have had to experience over the past 2 months. i know that this situation will continue for reasons beyond our control that we make maximum possible efforts with regards to the situation that john gunther morley. or yesterday's discussion with the international monetary fund was held for this purpose. we hope to find a way to pay off our annual loan installments, sovereign bonds, and so on. subsequent to my discussions with the i m f. i have decided to work with them after examining the advantages and the disadvantage inside the ha,

come of it. yeah. so on your chief, i senior comment teacher, thank you for your comments. you're asking. so what do we do about this? i'm really glad that you asked that question. i'm going to go to the tarza, jeff and he, he spoke to us just a little bit earlier with a whole list of what sri lanka should be doing next. here, yes, we have to start with a start using our unsustainable extend it. he had to significantly reduce the energy subsidies that only linked to cdn. images is cautiously going to the doctor because it households we have to lead price. our policy to seems to be more gross market street. we have to do certain kind of draws on financial immersion. that is, the more panic you to look. and we need to get some announcements about this, or lucy eating use taxes, which was radically key lizards that these glasses texts and more. seymour li,

urgently need an i me go grab, i should thank you so much for sharing your take on what is happening with the economic crisis in sri lanka, lini, we really appreciate you. me now. i actually have 30 seconds left in that last 30 seconds. what do you think would happen next? level of anger that you see on the street is something that's quite powerful. we saw it. the ng, the update that you talked about, that developing story. hundreds of people gathering outside the president's house only for frustration. so it's going to get worse, i believe before i can get better where we're going. falling your reporting on line and on al jazeera. thank you so much, man, l la heaney, hasha, and all the comments on youtube. appreciate it. i see next time take everybody. ah

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