We need independent journalists like you. Having the right resources and asking the right questions is excellent. There is so much rich and valuable content in the interview.
Great interview. I wonder how you get hold of these people for interviews. I am sure he did not mention corruption because that would have been looked upon by the government as a negative. People like this have to be diplomatic. This interview was long before the election and he may respond differently now. Good job, Alanki.
I have been watching all your interviews specially on srilankan Economy. Among the journalists who go after gossips you are a real asset for the country.Many Thanks
Thank you so much for being given a great description of the economy and its come-back story in Sri Lanka for the international. It is a good breakthrough that can explain how to overcome other countries through their economic challenges. 💯💯💯
This interview with Gregory Smith is the mother of all interviews by Krishani Alanki, shed light on the IMF Assistance on multiples of times. Alanki's questions were intelligence and clever. Better to summarize the key points and present them to the president for action.
The interview was quite informative but true reasons of economic downturn was barely touched. We the Sri Lankans have unique resources and great leader understandably implement. Thanks
Alanki,you initiated the discussion very intelligently.Your interviews cover a broad spectrum of disciplines.A refreshing change to the media culture,particularly the English stream. Glad to know the World Bank perspective..Authourities present n future please note.
My friend, you have been very diplomatic and forgiving for the sins which had been taken place in Sri Lanka. The country has been lashed by politicians and people are now picking the pieces. Let's talk straight rather than being a hoodwinker!
I think IMF employees are instructed to be deplomatic in these affairs. He can't criticise specific actions taken by politicians or political parties. Do you remember how the Rajapakshas had convinced half the people that all NGOs are our enemy and out to destroy us? There are certain protocols you must follow when you are working for such organisations.
Where did we go wrong This person have no idea of the expenses The state officials take a major share of the generated revenue How many pensions a government servants at retirement is this happening. No one example the expenses on retired Presidents. Pension is Not a problem .check the millions expended as benefits.
It was another political/diplomatic cordial conversation only avoiding the sharks that engulfed our nation’s richness openly but closing the peasant eyes. Why all majority is looking for only government jobs? How can anyone start entrepreneurships in the presence of ling ongoing uncertainty while no support at all from the government that i ly looks at ways ti increase taxes on people. Another hidden means if slavery. Our people are way smarter than the ones in any other country in the world comparatively, but is nit recognized meaningfully by those who must. Let us find ways to create a leadership that can appreciate our values first.
Where is the security, Big brother and small brother proplems,most corrupted country beggers believe And ruled and scr*** By forgirn powders Growths on what
SL's journalism is at a very low-mind position. One can see that our mainstream journalism and journalists only look for things, like vultures looking for carcasses. They don't want to discuss positive things because the public is equally looking for rotten carcasses. Amidst such a background, respect your journalism.
There is only 2 types of job... Public or Private Our people rely too much on Public jobs... Uelnless we change our mindset to go for Private jobs, our pockets will be empty.
Sri Lanka didn’t grow between the time period he mentioned. If we did grow why we went into economic meltdown? Loans were not for the purpose it was meant for.
We grew on paper because of the massive infrastructure projects done on borrowed money. But ultimately these were not sustainable because this money was not invested in a way that would grow the economy. Just in vanity projects.
@@katsullivan Spending millions of dollars of borrowed money on harbours where ships don't come and airports where planes don't come and towers for no fucking reason sure seems like useful projects...
Has anybody thought like this; As Mr.Smith said , the decade 2007-2017, there was significant growth. That also means someday Sri Lanka will be free from debt. Now comes the issue, some parties who have lent Sri Lanka actually should be happy they get their money back with interests., but in the ironey that it is not so. And when this goes so, they do not wish Sri Lanka will pay their money back., understandable - they want island's property in lue of their money. And how they are succeeding their motives is keeping Sri Lanka's economy down, by all means! After the so called decade of growth, they succeeded in placing a ruler who is in terms with them. You may remember "April 2019" also the way of handling the economy, eg: rulliing out all the chemical fertilizers to carbonic fertilizers, overninght! That;s one example how our economy began to collapse, presumblly it is delibarte. From there on, upto the day, there's a hidden force that very vigilantly keeping our economy down, to reach their motives. Also it's presumble that these forces didn't like we undergo the MCC project that was just about to be carried out here. And all the text here, show only the tip of the ice-burg .... There are pepole who see it full don't seem to speak up the issue in public!
This person does not have an understanding of the situation in Sri Lanka. He did not talk about corruption, waste, not collecting taxes, no fair competition etc. Sri Lanka's debts increase from USD 80 billion to USD 100 billion. He seems like a social enemy for appreciating the free education system in Sri Lanka. මේ පුද්ගලයාට ලංකාවේ තත්ත්වය ගැන අවබෝධයක් නැහැ. දූෂණය, නාස්තිය, බදු අය නොකිරීම, සාධාරණ තරගයක් නොමැතිකම ආදිය ගැන ඔහු කතා කළේ නැත.ලංකාවේ ණය ඩොලර් බිලියන 80 සිට ඩොලර් බිලියන 100 දක්වා වැඩිවේ. ලංකාවේ නිදහස් අධ්යාපන ක්රමය අගය කිරීම නිසා ඔහු සමාජ සතුරෙක් වගේ.
We need independent journalists like you. Having the right resources and asking the right questions is excellent. There is so much rich and valuable content in the interview.
Thank you so much 🙏🏽
Great interview. I wonder how you get hold of these people for interviews.
I am sure he did not mention corruption because that would have been looked upon by the government as a negative. People like this have to be diplomatic. This interview was long before the election and he may respond differently now. Good job, Alanki.
I have been watching all your interviews specially on srilankan Economy. Among the journalists who go after gossips you are a real asset for the country.Many Thanks
Thank you for the kind words and feedback 🙏🏽
Great ,we need more interviews like this ,with IMF people as well,nice work❤
🙏🏽
Thank you so much for being given a great description of the economy and its come-back story in Sri Lanka for the international. It is a good breakthrough that can explain how to overcome other countries through their economic challenges. 💯💯💯
This is more of an informative discussion and we need more sessions like this.
Thank you so much Alanki 👍🏼
Glad you watched it! Thanks for the feedback!
This interview with Gregory Smith is the mother of all interviews by Krishani Alanki, shed light on the IMF Assistance on multiples of times. Alanki's questions were intelligence and clever. Better to summarize the key points and present them to the president for action.
@@kunchithapathanparamanatha7558 thank you and appreciate the feedback!
nice work here. its good to see information without pushing one agenda or another.
These interviews must be made viral & people should start to watch these instead of going to election campaigns
The interview was quite informative but true reasons of economic downturn was barely touched. We the Sri Lankans have unique resources and great leader understandably implement. Thanks
Alanki,you initiated the discussion very intelligently.Your interviews cover a broad spectrum of disciplines.A refreshing change to the media culture,particularly the English stream.
Glad to know the World Bank perspective..Authourities present n future please note.
Thank you so much for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed the video!
My friend, you have been very diplomatic and forgiving for the sins which had been taken place in Sri Lanka. The country has been lashed by politicians and people are now picking the pieces. Let's talk straight rather than being a hoodwinker!
Best response so far as far as the gist of the interview goes. Thank you
I think IMF employees are instructed to be deplomatic in these affairs. He can't criticise specific actions taken by politicians or political parties. Do you remember how the Rajapakshas had convinced half the people that all NGOs are our enemy and out to destroy us? There are certain protocols you must follow when you are working for such organisations.
❤ Super ❤
Very informative
Glad you think so!
Where did we go wrong
This person have no idea of the expenses
The state officials take a major share of the generated revenue
How many pensions a government servants at retirement is this happening.
No one example the expenses on retired Presidents. Pension is
Not a problem .check the millions expended as benefits.
It was another political/diplomatic cordial conversation only avoiding the sharks that engulfed our nation’s richness openly but closing the peasant eyes. Why all majority is looking for only government jobs? How can anyone start entrepreneurships in the presence of ling ongoing uncertainty while no support at all from the government that i ly looks at ways ti increase taxes on people. Another hidden means if slavery. Our people are way smarter than the ones in any other country in the world comparatively, but is nit recognized meaningfully by those who must. Let us find ways to create a leadership that can appreciate our values first.
Economic Security is part and partial of National Security, timely awareness/topic, I see this programme in TV too.
@@priyangajayasooriya619 thank you 🙏🏽
Where is the security,
Big brother and small brother proplems,most corrupted country beggers believe
And ruled and scr***
By forgirn powders
Growths on what
SL's journalism is at a very low-mind position. One can see that our mainstream journalism and journalists only look for things, like vultures looking for carcasses. They don't want to discuss positive things because the public is equally looking for rotten carcasses.
Amidst such a background, respect your journalism.
Thank you 🙏🏽
There is only 2 types of job... Public or Private
Our people rely too much on Public jobs... Uelnless we change our mindset to go for Private jobs, our pockets will be empty.
1st of all Sri lanka Government stop descreminating Tamil people and solve our ethnic problem. Then only FDI will flow into this country
Sri Lanka didn’t grow between the time period he mentioned. If we did grow why we went into economic meltdown? Loans were not for the purpose it was meant for.
True. It is clear that the resource person has not done his homework properly or he is intentionally trying some deceiving tactics.
He should have emphasized on the massive abuse and curruption done by politicians..namely RAJAPAKSES , Wickramasinghe and Sirisena and their goons
We grew on paper because of the massive infrastructure projects done on borrowed money. But ultimately these were not sustainable because this money was not invested in a way that would grow the economy. Just in vanity projects.
@@sanvadaya how old you were in 2015..? I dont know how infrastructure is a vanity project. 😂. Are you a jeppa..? Dont be a kuhakaya.. 😂
@@katsullivan Spending millions of dollars of borrowed money on harbours where ships don't come and airports where planes don't come and towers for no fucking reason sure seems like useful projects...
Has anybody thought like this;
As Mr.Smith said , the decade 2007-2017, there was significant growth. That also means someday Sri Lanka will be free from debt. Now comes the issue, some parties who have lent Sri Lanka actually should be happy they get their money back with interests., but in the ironey that it is not so. And when this goes so, they do not wish Sri Lanka will pay their money back., understandable - they want island's property in lue of their money.
And how they are succeeding their motives is keeping Sri Lanka's economy down, by all means! After the so called decade of growth, they succeeded in placing a ruler who is in terms with them. You may remember "April 2019" also the way of handling the economy, eg: rulliing out all the chemical fertilizers to carbonic fertilizers, overninght! That;s one example how our economy began to collapse, presumblly it is delibarte.
From there on, upto the day, there's a hidden force that very vigilantly keeping our economy down, to reach their motives.
Also it's presumble that these forces didn't like we undergo the MCC project that was just about to be carried out here.
And all the text here, show only the tip of the ice-burg .... There are pepole who see it full don't seem to speak up the issue in public!
Partly right,but this is all international plot ??????₹#&₹€£¥$†???&!!!!!
This person does not have an understanding of the situation in Sri Lanka. He did not talk about corruption, waste, not collecting taxes, no fair competition etc. Sri Lanka's debts increase from USD 80 billion to USD 100 billion. He seems like a social enemy for appreciating the free education system in Sri Lanka.
මේ පුද්ගලයාට ලංකාවේ තත්ත්වය ගැන අවබෝධයක් නැහැ. දූෂණය, නාස්තිය, බදු අය නොකිරීම, සාධාරණ තරගයක් නොමැතිකම ආදිය ගැන ඔහු කතා කළේ නැත.ලංකාවේ ණය ඩොලර් බිලියන 80 සිට ඩොලර් බිලියන 100 දක්වා වැඩිවේ. ලංකාවේ නිදහස් අධ්යාපන ක්රමය අගය කිරීම නිසා ඔහු සමාජ සතුරෙක් වගේ.