MARCH 28, 2025
Recovery Without Relief: How Colombo’s Working Class Poor Stay Afloat
With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis behind us, many have been quick to categorise Sri Lanka’s status quo as being in a state of economic recovery. However for Colombo’s working class poor, daily life remains unchanged. Even in Colombo where the wheels of economic development are turning the fastest, these communities are using the same survival strategies since 2022 of cutting expenses, depending on borrowing from the informal credit market, and juggling multiple income streams just to get by. If households are still making trade-offs and sacrifices as before, can we truly call this a recovery?
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