IMF Staff Country Reports

Montenegro: Request for Purchase under the Rapid Financing Instrument; Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Montenegro

June 25, 2020

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International Monetary Fund. European Dept. "Montenegro: Request for Purchase under the Rapid Financing Instrument; Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Montenegro", IMF Staff Country Reports 2020, 210 (2020), accessed 12/6/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513548661.002

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Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic will hit Montenegro hard, as tourism is a key industry. Fiscal space has eroded in recent years due to large public capital outlays, and the COVID-19 crisis is creating new budgetary strains as health spending and other expenditures rise, while the economic contraction lowers revenues.

Subject: Banking, Capital spending, COVID-19, Economic sectors, Expenditure, External debt, Financial sector, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Health, Public debt, Tourism

Keywords: assistance, Capital spending, COVID-19, CR, emergency financing request, Executive Board discussion, Financial sector, financing, financing gap, Fiscal stance, Global, IMF lending tracker, ISCR, liquidity withdrawal requirement rate, Tourism