{"id":154991,"date":"2026-03-03T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154991"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:52:50","slug":"our-finances-are-in-dire-straits-step-back-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/03\/03\/our-finances-are-in-dire-straits-step-back-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Our finances are in dire straits. Step back and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><u>by Garvin Karunaratne<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Our external debt has reached $ 33.2 billion by the end of December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in foreign debt denotes that we are on the wrong path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My earlier Papers in Lanka Web indicate the measures that have to be done if the authorities are interested to build up our economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garvin Karunaratne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>former GA Matara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Garvin Karunaratne Our external debt has reached $ 33.2 billion by the end of December 2025. The increase in foreign debt denotes that we are on the wrong path. My earlier Papers in Lanka Web indicate the measures that have to be done if the authorities are interested to build up our economy. Garvin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154992,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154991\/revisions\/154992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}