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Cyprus: Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Reviews Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility; Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion; and Rephasing of Access

June 23, 2015

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Cyprus: Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Reviews Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility; Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion; and Rephasing of Access, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed September 20, 2024

Summary

This paper discusses Cyprus’s Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Reviews Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility, Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion (PC), and Rephasing of Access. Economic developments have been encouraging. The recession in 2014 was milder than expected, and GDP growth was positive in the first quarter of 2015 for the first time in almost four years. Program performance has been generally strong. Compliance with quantitative conditionality has been good, and the authorities have advanced structural reforms. Further efforts to strengthen banking supervision and restructure banks are needed. The ongoing structural reform program is also crucial for public finances and growth.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, Debt restructuring, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Nonperforming loans, Public debt, Solvency

Keywords: Adjustment program, Asset purchase program, Authority, CR, Debt restructuring, Disbursement of SDR, Europe, Financial sector stability, Global, ISCR, Nonperforming loans, Profile revision, Program ownership, Restructuring plan, Solvency

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    86

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2015/155

  • Stock No:

    1CYPEA2015001

  • ISBN:

    9781513546940

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685