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Republic of Congo: Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, Requests for Modification of Performance Criteria, Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review-Press Release; Staff Report; Debt Sustainability Analysis; Staff Supplement; and Statement by the Executive Director

January 12, 2024

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Republic of Congo: Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, Requests for Modification of Performance Criteria, Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review-Press Release; Staff Report; Debt Sustainability Analysis; Staff Supplement; and Statement by the Executive Director, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2024) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

The third review of a three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement (SDR 324 million, 200 percent of quota) was concluded on July 19, 2023. The momentum in economic growth continues, while rising production costs push up inflation. In the first half of 2023, overperformance in oil and non-oil revenue, combined with tighter budget execution, improved the non-oil primary fiscal deficit by 0.6 percent of non-oil GDP compared to the Third Review (CR 23/271). However, higher-than-expected external debt service—due to contractual contingencies to oil prices—tightened the adjusted target for the non-oil basic primary balance, implying a miss of the target by 0.9 percent of non-oil GDP. Congo also accumulated less deposits at BEAC than initially targeted. Despite external arrears remaining below the de-minimis threshold, public debt is assessed as sustainable but “in distress” due to frequent accumulation of new external arrears and uncertainty about the size of domestic arrears.

Subject: Arrears, External debt, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, International organization, Monetary policy, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Public debt, Taxes

Keywords: Gas and mining taxes, Arrears, Fiscal stance, Global, Oil, Oil revenue, PC table, Quantitative Performance Criteria, Reorganization of the CCA, Staff appraisal, Waivers of nonobservance

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    131

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2024/002

  • Stock No:

    1COGEA2024001

  • ISBN:

    9798400263200

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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