upper secondary social studies-economic consequences of sri lanka conflict
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Economic consequences of Sri Lanka
conflict
Unemployment
• The Sri Lanka conflict in July 1983 led to unemployment as many people had lost their jobs, including factory workers, self-employed and plantation workers
• A large amount of jobless Sinhalese vandalize, loot and burn their places of work
• This led to everyone being affected in the conflict
Loss of investment from other countries
• Due to the conflict in Sri Lanka, foreign investors had lost their confidence of investing in Sri Lanka
Fall in the number of tourist
• Tourism in Sri Lanka was one of the major source of income for Sri Lanka
• Due to the conflict in July 1983, the number of tourist coming to Sri Lanka had decreased
• The decrease in tourism caused many tourism companies to close down and the earnings had fallen
• There were insufficient money to help build facilities for tourism
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