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Kyrgyz Republic: Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion

January 22, 2004

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Kyrgyz Republic: Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

The Kyrgyz Republic has made good progress under the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF)-supported economic program. Executive Directors commended the sound policies, low inflation, and poverty reduction. They appreciated the strong fiscal discipline, and monetary and exchange rate policies. They emphasized the need to accelerate structural reforms, strengthen the financial system, and restructure the electricity sector. They stressed the need to reduce corruption and improve governance so as to promote investment and growth. They congratulated authorities for the successful implementation of the second PRGF, and granted a waiver.

Subject: Currencies, Expenditure, External debt, Foreign exchange, Money, Revenue administration

Keywords: Authority, Central Asia, CR, Currencies, Depreciation of the nominal exchange rate, Fourth quarter benchmark, ISCR, Kyrgyz authorities, Kyrgyzstan, PRGF loan, Three-Year PRGF arrangement

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    91

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2004/016

  • Stock No:

    1KGZEA0012004

  • ISBN:

    9781451821369

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685