Republic of Tajikistan: Republic of Tajikistan: Request for Disbursement Under the Rapid Credit Facility—Informational Annex
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Request for Disbursement under the Rapid Credit Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Tajikistan

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Request for Disbursement under the Rapid Credit Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Tajikistan

Fund Relations

(As of March 31, 2020)

Membership Status: Joined April 27, 1993; Article VIII General Resources Account

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SDR Department

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Outstanding Purchases and Loans

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Latest Financial Arrangements

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Projected Payments to the Fund 2

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Implementation of HIPC Initiative: Not applicable Implementation of Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI):

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Safeguards Assessment

The last safeguards assessment was completed in 2010. It recommended to improve the NBT’s organizational structure, transparency, audit arrangements and accounting controls. Subsequently, an NBT reform action plan was drawn up, and since 2010 several measures have been implemented, including six-monthly reviews of NIR data by an external auditor during the 2009–12 ECF arrangement and the addition of non-executive members to the Board of Directors. The NBT financial statements continue to be audited in accordance with international standards and the results are published, albeit with some delays. The NBT is operating with substantial negative equity that amounted to TJS 6.4 billion (equivalent of USD 679 million) at end-2018. A 2018 IMF technical assistance mission recommended a staged recapitalization of TJS 500 million each year beginning early 2019 until positive statutory capital is achieved.

Exchange Rate Arrangements

Tajikistan’s de jure exchange rate arrangement is managed floating and its de facto exchange rate arrangements is classified as stabilized.

With effect from December 9, 2004, the Republic of Tajikistan accepted the obligations of Article VIII, Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Articles of Agreement. The Republic of Tajikistan maintains one exchange restriction and two multiple currency practices subject to Fund approval under Article VIII, Section 2(a) and Section 3 of the IMF`s Articles of Agreement. Foreign exchange shortages, evidenced by market participants` reports of undue delays in obtaining foreign exchange and external payment arrears, persist in the commercial foreign exchange market as a result of the setting of exchange rates by commercial banks used in foreign exchange transactions, due to informal guidance by the NBT, which do not reflect market conditions. As a consequence of this, not all demand for bona fide foreign exchange for current international transactions is satisfied, giving rise to an exchange restriction. One multiple currency practice arises because of the absence of a mechanism to prevent a potential deviation of more than 2 percent between: (i) the prevailing market exchange rate and (ii) the official exchange rate, which is required to be used for converting domestic currency (somoni) to foreign currency, and vice-versa, between accounts of individuals and legal entities opened within the same commercial bank. The second multiple currency practice arises because of the absence of a mechanism to prevent a potential deviation of more than 2 percent between: (i) the somoni-Russian ruble exchange rate (calculated as a cross-rate using the official exchange rate of the USD to somoni), which is required to be used for mandatory ruble surrender transactions and (with a maximum variation of 0.5 percent) for the purchase/sale in the interbank market of rubles derived from the mandatory surrender and (ii) the market exchange rate banks may use for purchase/sale of Russian rubles derived from other sources. The Republic of Tajikistan also maintains exchange restrictions imposed for security reasons that have been notified to the Fund pursuant to Executive Board decision No. 144–(52/51) Fund.

FSAP Participation

Tajikistan participated in the Financial Sector Assessment Program during 2007–08, and the FSSA report was been published at http://www.imf.org/external/country/TJK/index.htm. An FSAP Update mission was held in January-February 2015 and the associated FSSA was discussed by the Executive Board at the time of the 2015 Article IV consultation.

Article IV Consultation

The 2019 Article IV consultation with Tajikistan was concluded on January 13, 2020.

Resident Representative

Mr. Sobolev, Resident Representative of the Fund, started his assignment in Dushanbe in August 2016.

Technical Assistance

The following table summarizes the Fund’s technical assistance (TA) to Tajikistan since 2006.

Tajikistan: Technical Assistance, 2006–20

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Relations with Other International Financial Institutions

The World Bank work program on Tajikistan can be found on the following website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/tajikistan

The Asian Development Bank work program on Tajikistan can be found on the following website: https://www.adb.org/countries/tajikistan/main

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development work program on Tajikistan can be found on the following website:

https://www.ebrd.com/tajikistan.html

Statistical Issues

(As of April, 2020)

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Tajikistan: Table of Common Indicators Required for Surveillance

(as of April 22, 2020)

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Includes reserve assets pledged or otherwise encumbered as well as net derivative positions.

Both market-based and officially-determined, including discount rates, money market rates, rates on treasury bills, notes and bonds.

Foreign, domestic bank, and domestic nonbank financing.

The general government consists of the central government (budgetary funds, extra budgetary funds, and social security funds) and state and local governments.

Including currency and maturity composition.

Daily (D); Weekly (W); Monthly (M); Quarterly (Q); Annually (A); Irregular (I); Not Available (NA).

Reflects the assessment provided in the data ROSC published on April 2005 and based on the findings of the mission that took place during April 2004 for the dataset corresponding to the variable in each row. The assessment indicates whether international standards concerning (respectively) concepts and definitions, scope, classification/sectorization, and basis for recording are fully observed (O), largely observed (LO), largely not observed (LNO), or not observed (NO).

Same as footnote 7, except referring to international standards concerning (respectively) source data, statistical techniques, assessment and validation of source data, assessment and validation of intermediate data and statistical outputs, and revision studies.

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Formerly PRGF.

2

When a member has overdue financial obligations outstanding for more than three months, the amount of such arrears will be shown in this section.

3

The MDRI provides 100 percent debt relief to eligible member countries that qualified for the assistance. Grant assistance from the MDRI Trust and HIPC resources provide debt relief to cover the full stock of debt owed to the Fund as of end-2004 that remains outstanding at the time the member qualifies for such debt relief.

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