Changing Patterns in Low-Income Country Financing and Implications for Fund Policies on External Financing and Debt

February 26, 2009

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Changing Patterns in Low-Income Country Financing and Implications for Fund Policies on External Financing and Debt, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 0) accessed November 21, 2024

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Low-income countries (LICs) face significant challenges in meeting their development objectives while maintaining a sustainable debt position. The international community’s main answer to this dilemma has been to promote recourse to concessional external resources. The Fund’s recommendations to LICs conform to this preference: the practice in Fund-supported programs in LICs has generally been to set zero limits on nonconcessional external borrowing while not restricting concessional financing, although flexibility has been applied on a case-by-case basis to allow some nonconcessional borrowing when warranted.

Subject: Debt, Debt management, Debt sustainability, External debt, External financing, Fund policies, Low-income developing countries

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