## The Gambia: Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative: Completion Point Document and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative

_IMF Staff Country Reports, March 24, 2008_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 24, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451815603.002

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### Assessment and Purpose
- Provides an assessment of The Gambia’s performance in meeting the requirements for reaching the completion point under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
- Reviews the status of creditor participation.
- Presents an updated debt sustainability analysis (DSA).
- Contains a summary of the main conclusions and lists a number of issues for discussion by the Boards of IDA and the IMF.

### Key Findings
- The poverty database and monitoring capacity has been improved.
- Macroeconomic performance under the third poverty reduction growth facility (PRGF)-supported program has been strong.

### Analytical Focus and Themes
- Asset and liability management
- Debt relief
- Debt service
- Debt sustainability
- Expenditure
- External debt

### Keywords and Technical Terms Preserved
- base year
- CR
- current account
- debt management
- Debt relief
- Debt service
- Debt sustainability
- economic growth
- exchange rate
- government policy
- ISCR
- NPV terms
- regulatory agency
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- West Africa

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