## Guinea-Bissau: Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries-Completion Point Document and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative

_IMF Staff Country Reports, December 22, 2010_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: December 22, 2010
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455213535.002

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### Summary
- According to IMF and IDA authorities, Guinea-Bissau had met the requirements for reaching the decision point under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
- The authorities appreciated the country’s tremendous efforts to reestablish economic, social, and institutional stability.
- In view of this, in addition to debt relief agreed at the decision point under the Enhanced Initiative for HIPC, they also agreed to topping up assistance at the completion point.

### Key findings and agreed actions
- Guinea-Bissau met the decision point requirements under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative.
- Debt relief had been agreed at the decision point under the Enhanced Initiative for HIPC.
- Additional topping-up assistance was agreed at the completion point.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subjects: Asset and liability management, Debt relief, Debt service, Debt service ratios, Education, External debt, Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords: CR, current account, debt forgiveness, Debt relief, Debt service, Debt service ratios, GDP deflator, government savings, Guinea-Bissau authorities, ISCR, long-term debt, net present value, organic law, oversight authority, private sector, public expenditure, real GDP, sensitivity analysis, topping-up assistance, West Africa

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