Sri Lanka’s prime minister recently said his nation’s debt-stricken economy has “collapsed.”The South Asian island country is running out of money to pay for food and fuel.It is seeking help from neighboring India and China and from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took office in May.He described the difficult task he faces in turning around an economy that he said is heading for “rock bottom.”The United Nations World Food Program says nearly nine of 10 families in Sri Lanka are going without some meals or otherwise decreasing how much they eat.Three million of the country’s 23 million people are receiving emergency humanitarian aid.Doctors are using social media to try and get important supplies of equipment and medicine.Growing numbers of Sri Lankans are seeking passports to go overseas in search of work.Economists say the crisis comes from in-country causes such as years of poor leadership and corruption.
