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Lesotho: Third Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement and Request for Waivers of Performance Criteria

October 4, 2002

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This paper assesses Lesotho’s Third Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) Arrangement and Request for Waivers of Performance Criteria. The government has declared a state of famine that is affecting an estimated 900,000 people. One quantitative performance criterion for end-March 2002—the ceiling on the government’s domestic financing requirement—was not observed, almost entirely because of delays in external payments. The authorities have requested, and IMF staff supports, a waiver on this performance criterion.

Subject: Banking, Central banks, Commercial banks, Expenditure, Financial institutions, International reserves, Revenue administration, Tax collection

Keywords: Africa, Commercial banks, CR, Food relief plan, Government, Government balance sheet, International reserves, ISCR, Plan, PRGF arrangement, PRGF loan, Priority poverty program, Southern Africa, Tax collection

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    60

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2002/218

  • Stock No:

    1LSOEA0032002

  • ISBN:

    9781451823769

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685