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Sri Lanka's foreign debt default: Why the island nation went under   DW 20220414

"Since graduating into a lower middle-income country in the early 2000s, successive Sri Lankan governments have been increasingly borrowing from private international capital markets through the issuance of sovereign bonds, seriously contributing to the precarity of the balance-of-payments of the country," said Dr. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, development economist and principal researcher at the Point Pedro Institute of Development in Sri Lanka. "This capital-market borrowing is unconditional, with relatively high interest rates and much shorter durations of repayment."