VII Debt Restructuring by Official Bilateral Creditors
Author: International Monetary Fund
Language:
English
Keywords:
WEFS; debt; country; financing; paris club creditor; rescheduling country; export credit agency; Naples terms; IMF staff estimate; Debt service; Debt burden; Arrears; Public and publicly-guaranteed external debt; Baltics; Middle East; Sub-Saharan Africa; North Africa; Central Africa; date debt; reduction option; debt-restructuring agreement; terms debt; Debt rescheduling; Debt restructuring; Debt conversion

Abstract

This section provides an update of developments in debt restructurings by Paris Club creditors since July 1993. focusing mainly on reschedulings during 1995.77 During the period between July 1993 and July 1995, 32 rescheduling agreements were concluded, consolidating debt-service obligations amounting to about $39 billion; these involved 19 low-income countries, 5 lower middle-income countries, and 7 other middle-income countries78 (Tables A25 and A26), This brings the total number of Paris Club reschedulings since 1976 to 244, involving debt-service obligations amounting to $276 billion (Table A30).79

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Cover Official Financing for Developing Countries
Official Financing for Developing Countries
Author: International Monetary Fund
ISBN:
9781557755278
ISSN:
0258-7440
Publication Date:
01 Dec 1995
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557755278.083
Pages:
131

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