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Sri Lanka is printing money to pay salaries

To manage the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, newly inducted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he is forced to print money to pay the salaries of government employees, continuing a vicious cycle that led the country to debt in the first place.

Sri Lanka had been borrowing heavily for years but squandered the money on China-funded infrastructure projects, many of which now lie largely defunct.