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Sierra Leone: Sixth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement, Requests for Waiver of Performance Criteria and Additional Interim Assistance Under the Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Review of Financing Assurances, and Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement

June 10, 2005

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Sierra Leone: Sixth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement, Requests for Waiver of Performance Criteria and Additional Interim Assistance Under the Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Review of Financing Assurances, and Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 23, 2024

Summary

This report reviews developments during 2004 in the context of the Sixth and Final Program Review Under Sierra Leone’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement with the IMF. The authorities have implemented an economic reform program supported by a PRGF arrangement since 2001. The authorities also request a further extension of interim Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative assistance to Sierra Leone because of the exceptional circumstances of the country’s highly vulnerable external position and the need to help smooth out the profile of debt service payments to the IMF.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Debt relief, Economic and financial statistics, Education, Expenditure, Government finance statistics, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: Africa, CR, Debt relief, Development partner, Government, Government finance statistics, IMF staff representative, ISCR, Poverty reduction strategy, Poverty-reduction strategy paper, Press statement, Staff's assessment, Statement, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    68

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/194

  • Stock No:

    1SLEEA2005005

  • ISBN:

    9781451834536

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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