A currency broker stands near his booth, which is decorated with pictures of currency notes, while dealing with customers, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan January 27, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

A trader counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange booth in Peshawar, Pakistan January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz 

A trader counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange booth in Peshawar, Pakistan January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz 

As India and Pakistan celebrate their 76th independence day, this is a comparison of the two countries on a dozen socio-economic indicators The Indian rupee is comparatively stronger and more stable than the Pakistani rupee 

As India and Pakistan celebrate their 76th independence day, this is a comparison of the two countries on a dozen socio-economic indicators The Indian rupee is comparatively stronger and more stable than the Pakistani rupee 

Sri Lankan rupees are seen in a bowl at a vegetable vendor's shop amid the rampant food inflation, amid Sri Lanka's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 29 , 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon 

Lasanda Deepthi, 43, an auto-rickshaw driver for local ride hailing app PickMe, goes through her log book of expenses at home in Gonapola town, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 25, 2022. Since the financial crisis hit, she has been scrambling to find adequate petrol and earn enough as rides dwindled and inflation surged past 30% year-on-year. Her monthly income of about 50,000 Sri Lankan rupees started falling from January and is now less than half of what she used to earn. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi SEARCH "ABIDI AUTO-RICKSHAW" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Gita Sen, 70, a widow of a daily wager, who gets an allowance of 1000 rupees from the state government, prepares her morning tea inside her rented one-room, in a slum in Kolkata, India, May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri 

Gita Sen, 70, a widow of a daily wager, who gets an allowance of 1000 rupees from the state government, carries a container with drinking water from a municipal tap outside her rented one-room, in a slum in Kolkata, India, May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, sits outside her home with her husband Suna Jani, 15-year-old daughter Rajani and 10-year-old son Sujeet, a day before receiving the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 15, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, speaks to one of her patients who is pregnant, before travelling to Mathalput Community Health Centre to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 16, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Ramishi, 13, whose mother Reena Jani, is a health worker scheduled to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, tries to find signal on her phone so she can ring her mother the day before Jani is vaccinated, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 15, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, cooks a meal before travelling to Mathalput Community Health Centre to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at her home in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 16, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, gets ready at her home before travelling to Mathalput Community Health Centre to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 16, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, washes her utensils before travelling to Mathalput Community Health Centre to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 16, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, puts on a protective face mask as she gets ready to travel to Mathalput Community Health Centre to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 16, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, gets ready to leave her home before travelling to Mathalput Community Health Centre to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 16, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Reena Jani, 34, a health worker, cooks a meal before travelling to Mathalput Community Health Centre to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at her home in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, January 16, 2021. Jani became an accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker, a lynchpin of India's rural healthcare system, around seven years ago. She helps to monitor pregnant women in her village of 500 people, and helps with malaria tests and doles out basic medication for fever and diarrhoea. The main breadwinner for her family of five, Jani draws a monthly salary of 3,000 rupees ($41), helping put her two daughters and one son through school. When she first learned she was to be vaccinated, Jani said she wasn't worried. Then she heard a rumour. "Someone told me that people are fainting, they are developing fever and some are dying after taking the injection," she said. "That is why I was frightened." REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Ashtami Mondal, 30, whose 31-year-old husband Haripada, died in a tiger attack when he went fishing on the rivers encircling Kumirmari during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), cleans utensils in a pond next to her home on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. Haripada, the sole breadwinner, returned home from a construction job in mid-March, his family said, days before India's government announced the nationwide lockdown. "He said he would go nearby to fish and make 50-100 rupees to help with household expenses," Ashtami said. He left home before dawn, rowed into the forests and was killed. "If there was no lockdown or no coronavirus, he would have left here to work." REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ashtami Mondal, 30, whose 31-year-old husband Haripada, died in a tiger attack when he went fishing on the rivers encircling Kumirmari during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), wipes her nine-year-old son Himalesh Mondol's face at their home on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. Haripada, the sole breadwinner, returned home from a construction job in mid-March, his family said, days before India's government announced the nationwide lockdown. "He said he would go nearby to fish and make 50-100 rupees to help with household expenses," Ashtami said. He left home before dawn, rowed into the forests and was killed. "If there was no lockdown or no coronavirus, he would have left here to work." REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Papri Haldar, 11, whose father died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, peeps out of her home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees that Papri's mother Parul makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ashtami Mondal, 30, whose 31-year-old husband Haripada, died in a tiger attack when he went fishing on the rivers encircling Kumirmari during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), takes her cow to graze, by her home on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. Haripada, the sole breadwinner, returned home from a construction job in mid-March, his family said, days before India's government announced the nationwide lockdown. "He said he would go nearby to fish and make 50-100 rupees to help with household expenses," Ashtami said. He left home before dawn, rowed into the forests and was killed. "If there was no lockdown or no coronavirus, he would have left here to work." REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, and her daughter Papri Haldar, 11, travel across Satjelia island on a boat in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees ($27) Haldar makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. "No matter how hard it is, I want to educate her," said Haldar. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. 

Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip, and her daughter Papri Haldar, 11, walk on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees ($27) Haldar makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. "No matter how hard it is, I want to educate her," said Haldar. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, combs her 11-year-old daughter Papri Haldar's hair at their home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees ($27) Haldar makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. "No matter how hard it is, I want to educate her," said Haldar. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, and her daughter Papri Haldar, 11, sit together outside their home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees ($27) Haldar makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. "No matter how hard it is, I want to educate her," said Haldar. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Papri Haldar, 11, whose father died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, holds flowers in her hands on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees that Papri's mother Parul makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS SUNDARBANS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A Customs officer stands in the office of the Anti-Smuggling Organisation of Pakistan Customs amidst falcons, after they were seized in Karachi, Pakistan October 17, 2020. According to a press release by Customs at least seventy-four falcons worth 200 million Pakistani Rupees ($1.2 million) belonging to endangered species under International Convention on Illegal Trade on Endangered Species (CITES) were seized during a raid in Karachi. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

Falcons are seen at the office of the Anti-Smuggling Organisation of Pakistan Customs, after they were seized in Karachi, Pakistan October 17, 2020. According to a press release by Customs at least seventy-four falcons worth 200 million Pakistani Rupees ($1.2 million) belonging to endangered species under International Convention on Illegal Trade on Endangered Species (CITES) were seized during a raid in Karachi. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

Members of a family touch Indian rupee notes as they pray as part of a ritual during Dhanteras, a Hindu festival associated with Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, in Ahmedabad, India, October 25, 2019. REUTERS/Amit Dave 

A laborer eats his lunch of boiled rice with meat which cost Pakistani Rupees 80 (US$0.52) at a food stall along a road in Karachi, Pakistan June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

Mohammad Fakhir, 49, father of three and a laborer, sits with his tools as he waits for work along a side walk in Karachi, Pakistan May 21, 2019. Fakhir earns Pakistani Rupees 1500/(~US$9.9) when he gets a day job. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

Hazrat Jan, 40, father of six and a laborer, pulls a cart loaded with supplies to deliver at a nearby market, in Karachi, Pakistan May 21, 2019. Jan earns Pakistani Rupees 500/ (~$3.3USD) for a day's work. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

Noor Mohammad, 60, a laborer who picks up and delivers supplies, sits with his basket while waiting for customers at a market in Karachi, Pakistan May 21, 2019. Mohammad earns Pakistani Rupees 200/ (~$1.3 USD) for a day's work. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

Santosh Gurav, a 27-year-old Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) who has been unemployed for six months poses during a job fair in Chinchwad, India, February 7, 2019. "I have over 70,000 Indian rupees of education loans from my engineering degree. Many people who did this degree are jobless. There are many graduates and few jobs." Picture taken February 7, 2019. To match Insight INDIA-ELECTION/JOBS-ENGINEERS. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui 

Indian rupee notes are kept in front of an idol of Hindu Lord Rama as offerings by devotees, during Ramnavmi festival at a temple in Ahmedabad, India, April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Amit Dave 

A Total Parco gas station displays the price per litre basic unleaded petrol at Rupees 99.3 (~$0.70USD) in Karachi, Pakistan April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

Santosh Gurav, a 27-year-old Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) who has been unemployed for six months poses during a job fair in Chinchwad, India, February 7, 2019. "I have over 70,000 Indian rupees of education loans from my engineering degree. Many people who did this degree are jobless. There are many graduates and few jobs." Picture taken February 7, 2019. To match Insight INDIA-ELECTION/JOBS-ENGINEERS. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui 

Santosh Gurav, a 27-year-old Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) who has been unemployed for six months poses during a job fair in Chinchwad, India, February 7, 2019. "I have over 70,000 Indian rupees of education loans from my engineering degree. Many people who did this degree are jobless. There are many graduates and few jobs." Picture taken February 7, 2019. To match Insight INDIA-ELECTION/JOBS-ENGINEERS. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui 

A young devotee with a one rupees coin stuffed in his ear is pictured during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal January 21, 2019. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar 

A trader counts Pakistani rupee notes at a currency exchange booth in Peshawar, Pakistan December 3, 2018. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz 

Supporters of India's main opposition Congress Party, wearing masks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, display mock 500 and 1000-rupee banknotes during a protest to mark two years since demonetisation was implemented by Modi, outside the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) building in New Delhi, India, November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain 

A woman puts flower petals on the new 100 Indian rupee notes as she prays as part of a ritual during Dhanteras, a Hindu festival associated with Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, in Ahmedabad, India, November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Amit Dave 

A customer hands a 50-Indian rupee note to an attendant at a fuel station in Ahmedabad, India, October 5, 2018. REUTERS/Amit Dave 

A Sri Lankan Thousand rupee note is seen in this picture illustration taken September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/Illustration 

A general view of the shipping containers are seen at the main port in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

A cashier checks Indian rupee notes inside a room at a fuel station in Ahmedabad, India, September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Amit Dave 

Fuel prices in parts of India have hit record highs due to climbing crude prices and a weakening rupee. Here's how prices break down across states and a closer look at the role taxation plays in determining prices. embed code and instructions: https://reut.rs/2MNxi1U 

Sri Lankan rupee sign "Rs" is seen among U.S. dollar signs on glass at a money exchange counter in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 7, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

A man counts Sri Lankan rupees in a note counting machine at a money exchange counter in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 7, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

A man shows a thousand rupee note in this illustration photo taken September 7, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/Illustration 

A general view of shipping containers is seen at the main port in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 7, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

Tilak Raj Bathla, 50, owner of a weaving factory, poses for a picture at a closed section of his factory, in Panipat in the northern state of Haryana, India, August 29, 2018. Bathla's tiny weaving factory is one of the few still humming. "I have a GST (Goods and Services Tax) registration, but I can't work as my vendors and buyers are unable to comply with a complex tax structure," Bathla said, adding his monthly sales had fallen to about 250,000 rupees ($3,511) from about one million rupees before the GST. Only two of his 10 powerlooms are currently being used. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi SEARCH "ABIDI TAX" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

An attendant at a fuel station arranges Indian rupee notes in Kolkata, India, August 16, 2018. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri 

A worker checks a 500 Indian rupee note as a man fills diesel in containers at a fuel station in Kolkata, India, August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri 

A man counts Indian currency notes inside a shop in Mumbai, India, August 13, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas 

A customer hands Indian currency notes to an attendant at a fuel station in Mumbai, India, August 13, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas 

A container truck carries a container box past shipping containers at the main port in Colombo, Sri Lanka June 21, 2018. Picture taken June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

A shipping container unloads at the main port in Colombo, Sri Lanka June 21, 2018. Picture taken June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

Two dock workers ride on a bicycle past shipping containers at the main port in Colombo, Sri Lanka June 21, 2018. Picture taken June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte