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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust—Guidance Note on the Strengthened Policy Safeguards
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International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department
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Series:
Policy Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2025: Issue 006
Language:
English
Publication Date:
08 Apr 2025
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229004985.007
ISBN:
9798229004985
ISSN:
2663-3493
Pages:
37
Keywords:
Country Documents; CtR table; Debt service; Debt sustainability; Debt sustainability analysis; Guidance note; Informal Board; consultations; Public and publicly guaranteed external debt; Reducing debt vulnerability; IMF concessional lending; PRGT Safeguards.; SPS framework; transparency policy; financing request; SPS trigger; PRGT facilities framework; Public and publicly-guaranteed external debt
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In October 2024, as part of the Review of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) Facilities and Financing, the IMF Executive Board established the “Strengthened Policy Safeguards (SPS)”—combining and replacing the previous High Access Procedures (HAP) and Enhanced Safeguards for debt sustainability and capacity to repay (ES)—thereby streamlining a key part of the safeguards framework for Fund lending. The SPS operates alongside the exceptional access framework and the Policy Safeguards for High Combined Credit (PS-HCC). The SPS framework applies when proposed access under a new arrangement, the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF), or an augmentation of access under an arrangement in the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) exceeds certain access thresholds, and when countries at high risk of, or in, overall debt distress request financing. This note provides guidance on how to implement the SPS. It supersedes the 2022 guidance note on enhanced safeguards.
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ISSN:
2663-3493
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International Monetary Fund