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Leftist Sri Lanka leader stuck with painful IMF deal: analyst / 36GY3V3
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Sri Lanka's new leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country but imposed punishing and unpopular austerity measures, analysts say.
"There are certain red lines that the IMF will not agree to negotiate," says Murtaza Jafferjee, chairman of Colombo-based economic think tank Advocata. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES