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    Timely debt restructuring essential for Sri Lanka, says IMF 

    EditorialBy EditorialMay 23, 2023Updated:May 24, 2023 World No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Sri Lanka is exhibiting “tentative signs of improvement”, the International Monetary Fund has mentioned, whereas urging the island nation to succeed in well timed restructuring agreements with its collectors, earlier than the Fund’s first scheduled evaluate in September this 12 months.

    An IMF mission carried out a workers go to to Sri Lanka From May 11 to 23, to evaluate the implementation of the Fund’s programme aimed toward serving to Sri Lanka obtain debt sustainability and revive its financial system after final 12 months’s financial crash, the worst the nation has seen since Independence. In March 2023, the IMF cleared an almost $3 billion-dollar bundle for Sri Lanka, asking the nation to “step up structural reforms”.

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    “Following strong policy efforts, the macroeconomic situation in Sri Lanka is showing tentative signs of improvement, with inflation moderating, the exchange rate stabilising, and the Central Bank rebuilding reserves buffers. However, the overall macroeconomic and policy environment remains challenging,” the visiting delegation mentioned in a press release.

    Also learn: Ground Zero: In Sri Lanka, an extended and rocky street to financial restoration

    Referring to discussions on progress in debt restructuring, the visiting officers famous: “Achieving timely restructuring agreements with creditors in line with the programme targets by the time of the first review is essential to restoring debt sustainability.”

    ‘Sharing the burden’

    Earlier this month, a 17-member “creditor committee” for Sri Lanka, co-chaired by India, Japan and France, met to debate Sri Lanka’s formal request for debt therapy. China, which is Sri Lanka’s high bilateral creditor — adopted by Japan and India — attended the assembly as an observer.

    In a press release following the assembly, the committee careworn the necessity for Sri Lanka’s non-public collectors and different official bilateral collectors to supply a debt therapy plan on phrases “at least as favourable as the ones agreed by this creditor committee, in line with the comparability of treatment principle.” While India and the Paris Club have repeatedly underlined creditor parity, China has demanded that personal collectors — who maintain the most important share of Sri Lanka’s debt — in addition to multilateral lenders “share the burden” of a attainable haircut.  

    The go to of the IMF staff coincided, partially, with that of Krishna Srinivasan, Director of Asia and Pacific Department, IMF. In his remarks to the media in Colombo, Mr. Srinivasan highlighted the challenges going through the worldwide financial system. “Global growth is expected to decelerate and bottom out in 2023, as rising interest rates and Russia’s war in Ukraine weigh on activity. Global inflation is easing but remains stubbornly high. And banking strains in the U.S. and Europe have injected greater uncertainty into an already complex landscape,” he mentioned.

    Sri Lanka’s personal financial challenges, nonetheless, started manifesting starkly from the start of final 12 months, in a steadiness of funds downside, earlier than quickly escalating right into a meltdown that left residents with out important provides for months. The disaster additionally sparked a historic folks’s rebellion, which dislodged the Rajapaksas from energy.  

    The authorities secured the IMF bundle in March and is hoping to faucet different sources of credit score however in the meantime, Sri Lanka’s poor are reeling underneath the influence of excessive prices of residing, stagnant incomes, and joblessness after the financial system contracted 7.8 % final 12 months. According to an replace of the World Bank in April 2023, nationwide poverty doubled to 25%, whereas city poverty elevated three-fold to fifteen %. Multiple stories level to rising hunger and undernourishment amongst kids amongst Sri Lanka’s poor.

    Source: www.thehindu.com

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