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Vendors wait for customers at a vegetable market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Sri Lanka plunged into an economic crisis in 2022, creating severe shortages and drawing strident protests that led to the ouster of then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. It declared bankruptcy in April 2022 with more than $83 billion in debt, more than half of it to foreign creditors. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)