Supplement to 2018 Guidance Note on the Bank-Fund Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries
Policy Papers, August 5, 2024
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Bibliographic details
- Published: August 5, 2024
- Series: Policy Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400285363.007
Purpose and scope
- Provides additional guidance to IMF and World Bank staff on implementation of the Bank-Fund Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC-DSF) approved in 2017 by the IMF and World Bank Boards.
- Complements the 2018 Bank-Fund Guidance Note on the LIC-DSF.
- Confirms: "All aspects of the 2018 LIC-DSF Guidance Note remain in effect, except as modified in this Supplement."
Issues prompting the Supplement
- Greater prominence of risks from climate change.
- Further increase in borrowing on commercial terms and in domestic markets.
- Increased number and complexity of debt restructurings.
Core guidance emphasis
- How to address the above issues within the current LIC-DSF framework.
- Reinforces implementation practices and adjustments where specified by this Supplement.
Publication and metadata
- Publication date: August 5, 2024
- Pages: 32
- Series: Policy Paper No. 2024/039
- Volume: 2024
- Issue: 039
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400285363.007
- ISBN: 9798400285363
- ISSN: 2663-3493
- Stock No: PPEA2024039
- Format: Policy Papers (web landing page with PDF and eLibrary access options noted on the source)
Subject coverage
- Asset and liability management
- Climate change; Climate policy; Climate finance
- Debt restructuring; Debt service; Debt sustainability; Debt sustainability analysis
- Domestic debt; External debt; Domestic Public Debt; External Public Debt
- Environment; Natural disasters
- IMF poverty reduction; IMF resilience
- Stress testing; Transparency policy
- Pacific Islands; WB country climate
Keywords (as provided)
- burden indicator
- climate change
- Climate change
- Climate finance
- Climate policy
- Debt restructuring
- Debt restructuring
- Debt service
- Debt sustainability
- Debt sustainability
- Debt sustainability analysis
- Debt sustainability analysis
- Domestic debt
- Domestic debt
- Domestic Public Debt
- Environment
- External Public Debt
- Global
- IMF poverty reduction
- IMF resilience
- Natural disasters
- Pacific Islands
- Stress testing
- transparency policy
- WB country climate
International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department, and World Bank. "Supplement to 2018 Guidance Note on the Bank-Fund Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries", Policy Papers 2024, 039 (2024), August 5, 2024.
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