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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Malta: 2022 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Malta’s economy rebounded strongly from the pandemic. However, the indirect impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine, including the anticipated slowdown in the European economy, high and volatile global energy prices, rising import costs, and weakened public finances following the pandemic are weighing on the outlook. The Maltese economy is expected to slow from 6¼ percent this year to 3¼ percent in 2023. The financial system has proved to be resilient to the pandemic with ample capital and liquidity buffers. In June 2022, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removed Malta from its grey list of anti-money laundering and combatting the financing terrorism (AML/CFT) framework.
Keywords:
SDDS preparation; money market rate; liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident; Policy recommendation; property price index; External sector statistics; Energy prices; Inflation; Global; Europe
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Malta: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Selected Issues
Keywords:
copyright page; responses to the energy crisis; price signal; energy price; Brent crude oil price; Energy prices; Consumption; Electricity; Energy conservation; Fuel prices; Europe
Cover Policy Papers
Reviews of the Fund's Sovereign ARREARS Policies and Perimeter
International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept., International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department, and International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department
This paper undertakes a comprehensive review of the Fund’s sovereign arrears policies. Staff assesses that the Fund’s Lending into Arrears to Private Creditors (LIA) policy (established in 1989 and last reviewed in 2002) remains broadly appropriate, while recommending some improvements given the experience gained over the last 20 years. Staff also sees merit in codifying the existing practice guiding the Fund in preemptive debt restructurings into a Fund policy, together with an amendment focusing on debt transparency. Given limited experience with the application of the LIOA policy (established in 2015), staff does not propose any amendments but only one restatement confirming current practice. Given recent developments in the international creditor community, staff proposes refining the Fund’s arrears policies with respect to multilateral creditors. Finally, recent developments raise questions about the perimeter between official bilateral and private claims, with significant implications for the Fund’s arrears policies.
Keywords:
executive board understanding; draft executive board understanding; SPR coordinator; fund policy; executive board consideration; Arrears; Debt restructuring; Debt sustainability; Multilateral development institutions; Bonds; Global
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Malta: 2021 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Malta