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Burundi: Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries: Decision Point Document

September 13, 2005

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Burundi: Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries: Decision Point Document, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

This paper explains Burundi’s Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC). Burundi’s social indicators reflect the effects of poverty compounded by decades of violence. The government’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) is based on broad consultations, but limited in some provinces by security conditions. The debt sustainability analysis (DSA) shows that even after HIPC assistance, Burundi would remain above the HIPC threshold for a considerable period of time, leaving it vulnerable to prolonged risk of debt distress.

Subject: Arrears, Asset and liability management, Debt relief, Debt service, Exports, External debt, International trade

Keywords: Arrears, Burundi authorities, CR, Debt management, Debt relief, Debt relief, Debt service, Exchange rate, Exports, Gross investment, HIPC assistance, ISCR, Private sector, Public expenditure, Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    62

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/329

  • Stock No:

    1BDIEA2005005

  • ISBN:

    9781451802894

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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Also available online in French.