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Group of 120 experts including Joseph Stiglitz urge fresh debt restructuring plan given scale of destruction<\/p>\n

A group of the world\u2019s top economists \u2013 including the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz \u2013 have called for Sri Lanka\u2019s debt payments to be suspended as it tackles the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than 600 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed across the island, in what Sri Lanka\u2019s president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake<\/a>, called the \u201clargest and most challenging natural disaster in our history\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Group of 120 experts including Joseph Stiglitz urge fresh debt restructuring plan given scale of destructionA group of the world\u2019s top economists \u2013 including the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz \u2013 have called for Sri Lanka\u2019s debt payments to be suspe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2507,437,455,1709,79,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-debt-relief","category-economics","category-extreme-weather","category-natural-disasters","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75696\/revisions\/75697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}