A handful of people will decide Sri Lanka’s economic fate over the coming months.
Two are brothers, senior members of the divisive Rajapaksa clan who have long ruled the country: the president, 72-year-old Gotabaya; and Mahinda, 76, the former president who is now prime minister.
Neither of the two brothers is an economist. Nor was a third brother Basil, who was the finance minister overseeing the country’s economic mess – many say he helped create it – until that mess caught up with the family on April 4 when the cabinet resigned en masse.
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