## Sudan: Enhanced Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries Initiative-Preliminary Document

_IMF Staff Country Reports, March 26, 2021_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 26, 2021
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513575155.002

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### Overview
- Publication date: March 26, 2021
- Core objective: Implement an ambitious reform program to address major macroeconomic imbalances and support sustainable, inclusive growth.
- Transitional government mandate: Carry out sweeping reforms to reverse decades of economic and social decline.
- Transformational reform agenda focuses on:
  - (i) achieving internal peace based on inclusion, regional equity, and justice;
  - (ii) stabilizing the economy and correcting the large macroeconomic imbalances;
  - (iii) providing a foundation for future rapid growth, development, and poverty reduction.

### Key milestones and political context
- Peace agreement reached with almost all internal armed opposition groups in October 2020 to end 17 years of conflict.
- On December 14, 2020, Sudan was officially removed from the United States State Sponsors of Terrorism List (SSTL), ending almost three decades of international isolation.
- Political risks: Political contestation over power sharing arrangements remains acute; importance of seizing a still favourable political economy window to tackle macroeconomic imbalances.

### International engagement and policy framework
- The government has agreed to ambitious reforms and policy adjustments under:
  - an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Monitored Program (SMP) that meets the Upper Credit Tranche (UCT) conditionality standard; and
  - an International Development Association (IDA) Development Policy Financing (DPF) operation.
- External support is central to implementing stabilization and reform measures and to re-engaging with the international community.

### Themes, subjects, and keywords
- Subject classifications: Arrears, Asset and liability management, Debt relief, External debt, International organization, Monetary policy, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords: analysis in the staff report, Arrears, Debt relief, enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Global, HIPC decision point, Point trigger, Poverty reduction strategy, staff recommendation, transition government

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