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      "heading": "Analysis to identify debt vulnerabilities",
      "content": "- The IMF conducts analysis covering both global or regional debt trends and country-specific assessments, including Debt Sustainability Analyses (DSAs).\n- Purpose of analysis:\n  - Identify debt risks.\n  - Provide advice on how to address debt risks as early as possible."
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    {
      "heading": "Debt crisis prevention (multi-pronged approach)",
      "content": "- Prevention tools and activities include:\n  - Fostering debt transparency and improving public sector debt data.\n  - Supporting capacity development for prudent public debt management frameworks, including formulation of a medium-term debt management strategy.\n  - Developing local currency bond markets.\n  - Exploring adaptations of the IMF’s analytical tools and policies to mitigate debt risks.\n- The IMF coordinates with partners on a multipronged approach to address debt vulnerabilities and engages with G20 operational guidance and public debt transparency initiatives."
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    {
      "heading": "Debt crisis resolution and international debt architecture reform",
      "content": "- Debt resolution can combine policy adjustment and measures to restore growth; when policy adjustment is insufficient, debt restructuring may be necessary.\n- An IMF-supported program can complement a member country’s debt restructuring by providing macroeconomic policies and fresh financing to enable a return to medium-term viability.\n- The IMF supports efforts to improve the international architecture for sovereign debt restructurings to enable faster and more effective debt reduction.\n- Reform priorities addressed include:\n  - Improving frameworks and tools for restructuring both domestic and external sovereign debt.\n  - Strengthening contractual and institutional frameworks to address collective action problems in sovereign debt restructuring.\n  - Reviewing and adapting IMF policies related to lending into arrears, sovereign arrears policies and perimeter, and public debt limits in IMF-supported programs (including reforms and guidance issued in November 2020 and May 25, 2021, and earlier reforms noted from November 14, 2014).\n  - Utilizing mechanisms and initiatives aimed at providing debt treatment and relief in crisis contexts and for low-income countries."
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    "The IMF conducts analysis covering both global or regional debt trends and country-specific assessments, including Debt Sustainability Analyses (DSAs).",
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    "The IMF coordinates with partners on a multipronged approach to address debt vulnerabilities and engages with G20 operational guidance and public debt transparency initiatives.",
    "Debt resolution can combine policy adjustment and measures to restore growth; when policy adjustment is insufficient, debt restructuring may be necessary.",
    "An IMF-supported program can complement a member country’s debt restructuring by providing macroeconomic policies and fresh financing to enable a return to medium-term viability.",
    "The IMF supports efforts to improve the international architecture for sovereign debt restructurings to enable faster and more effective debt reduction.",
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    "**G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the DSSI▸**",
    "**The Common Framework: Utilizing its Flexibility to Support Developing Countries’ Recovery**",
    "**Reviews of the Fund's Sovereign Arrears Policies and Perimeter▸**",
    "**Note for the G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group G20 Operational Guidelines for**",
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    "[G20 Operational Guidelines for Sustainable FinancingꟷDiagnostic Tool▸ (PDF)](/external/np/g20/pdf/2019/111519.pdf){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}",
    "[012820 (PDF)](/external/np/g20/pdf/2020/012820.pdf){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}",
    "[Policy Paper (2013) (PDF)](/external/np/pp/eng/2013/042613.pdf){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}",
    "[The Fund’s Lending Framework and Sovereign Debt - Preliminary Considerations▸ (PDF)](/external/np/pp/eng/2014/052214.pdf){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}",
    "[Policy Paper (2014) (PDF)](/external/np/pp/eng/2014/090214.pdf){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}",
    "[Reforming the Fund's Policy on Non-Toleration of Arrears to Official Creditors▸ (PDF)](/external/np/pp/eng/2015/101515.pdf){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}",
    "[073002 (PDF)](/external/pubs/ft/privcred/073002.pdf){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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