are gone, yes, 312,000, but even in 2014, 304,000 people left, they will go for a better standard. so what the alternative is is to provide an opportunity here in sri lanka so that we can retain them and there is opportunity for them. but even in india, in the early 805, people started to go. now they have come back and they have started coming back. i m hopeful, if we all work together without this partisan approach, we can rebuild our country. foreign minister ali sabry, harini amarasuriya, opposition mp, and economist dushni weerakoon, thank you very much indeed. that s all from this edition of global questions on whether sri lanka is managing to put a lid on the political discontent, which was triggered by that economic crisis. and i hope we ve also discussed some of the lessons learned for other countries beset by similar problems. remember we are the programme that brings you the trend lines behind the headlines. from me, zeinab badawi, from here in colombo, thank you to you,
people, and the only way that we can keep them back is to give them a sense of some material, systemic change that s going to come to the country on the political front, as well as on the economic front. if we don t have the confidence, they ll keep leaving. 0k. harini? people are leaving because they ve lost hope and they don t think - that they can build a future in this. country, and that needs to change. people have to have hope, - people have to have confidence that they can carve a life out . for themselves in this country, and for that, there needs to be political change. i minister ali sabry final point. yeah, i feel there has to be deep economic reform, as well as structural and political reforms, because although we say that there s a lot of people are gone, yes, 312,000, but even in 2014, 304,000 people left, they will go for a better standard. so what the alternative is is to provide an opportunity here in sri lanka so that we can retain them and there is opportunity for
reforms, because although we say that reforms, because although we say that a reforms, because although we say that a lot of people are gone, say that a lot of people are gone, 312,000 but even in 2014 304.000 gone, 312,000 but even in 2014 304,000 people left, and they will go 304,000 people left, and they will go for a better standard so what will go for a better standard so what the alternative is is to provide an opportunity here in sri to provide an opportunity here in sri lanka so we can retain them in sri lanka so we can retain them and in sri lanka so we can retain them and there is opportunity for them them and there is opportunity for them but even in india, people for them but even in india, people started to go there in the early 80s and they have come the early 80s and they have come back and starting to come irack come back and starting to come back and come back and starting to come back and i m hopeful if we all work back and i m hopeful if we a
a sense of some material, systemic change that s going to come to the country on the political front, as well as on the economic front. if we don t have the confidence, they ll keep leaving. 0k. harini? people are leaving - because they ve lost hope and they don t think - that they can build a future in this country, and i that needs to change. people have to have hope, - people have to have confidence that they can carve a life out . for themselves in this country, and for that, there needs to be political change. i minister ali sabry final point. yeah, i feel there has to be deep economic reform, as well as structural and political reforms, because although we say that there s a lot of people are gone, yes, 312,000, but even in 2014, 304,000 people left, they will go for a better standard. so what the alternative is is to provide an opportunity here in sri lanka so that we can retain them and there is opportunity for them. but even in india, in the early 805, people started to go.
going to come to the country on the political front, as well as on the economic front. if we don t have the confidence, they ll keep leaving. 0k. harini? people are leaving - because they ve lost hope and they don t think - that they can build a future in this country, and i that needs to change. people have to have hope, - people have to have confidence that they can carve a life out . for themselves in this country, and for that, there needs to be political change. i minister ali sabry final point. yeah, i feel there has to be deep economic reform, as well as structural and political reforms, because although we say that there s a lot of people are gone, yes, 312,000, but even in 2014, 304,000 people left, they will go for a better standard. so what the alternative is is to provide an opportunity here in sri lanka so that we can retain them and there is opportunity for them. but even in india, in the early 80s, people started to go. now they have come back and they have started co