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Mains Prelims

Q7 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2023 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 1 min read

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The effect of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka on the whole world.

Topic: National and international events. Syllabus: Section C — National and International Events; Natural Calamities; National Development programmes and projects. Same official PYQ from year-wise 2023 and National and international events.

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Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A fuel queue in Colombo was on Indian phones. A crisis next door is never only next door: a fisher, a refugee rumour, a credit line, a rating mood. The world learned a small-open-economy lesson. India had to choose a neighbour-policy in public. A neighbour’s default is a lesson in tax, debt, and a queue for fuel. Help without a lecture; learn the fiscal at home.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

  • Causes: tax cuts, a organic-fertiliser shock, a COVID tourism smash, a debt. World: IMF, a bond, a supply of oil. India: assistance as a interest and a duty.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • Effect on the whole world: do not overclaim a 2008. Write channels: commodity, a migration, a sentiment, a China debt debate.

Lanka / world / India

  • Default politics. A tourism hole that others felt.
  • Lines of credit; a fishing file that stayed.

The counter

Schadenfreude. And ‘IMF always evil’ when a treasury is empty.

Help and homework

  • Sri Lanka as a dated shock: tourism, a tax, a reserve.
  • World: food, a fuel, a contagion of mood, an IMF desk.
  • India: neighbour first, a credit line, a people on a boat.
  • Homework: a fiscal that does not perform the same play.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • IMF / default The world file.
  • India credit line Neighbour politics.
  • Tourism / oil Channels of effect.
  • Debt / China cousin One careful line, not a rant.
  • SAARC / BIMSTEC A regional we that was thin.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

  • The economic crisis in Sri Lanka was a neighbour’s wound with a global echo: a fuel queue, a food price, a mood in markets that punish a weak book. India helping without a lecture is neighbourhood first. Learning the tax lesson at home is not schadenfreude; it is hygiene. The world felt a supply and a politics of default. Close on help without a sermon and a fiscal homework. That is effect named without a cartoon of a people.

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  • Tone?

    IR-econ, cool. One queue. Not a 2008 clone, not a gloat.

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