#IMF seeks to help poor countries deal with #coronavirus
918 Thursday, 02 April, 2020, 10:10 The International Monetary Fund has eased access to its emergency facilities and raised the ability of the poorest countries to strengthen their crisis response to the coronavirus pandemic, the fund’s managing director said late Tuesday. While the global economy is facing a shutdown, creditors should contribute to poorest countries with debt relief, Kristalina Georgieva told an extraordinary conference call of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors. She stressed that the fund's Executive Board has approved reforms to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT), which allows the fund's poorest members to invest against the pandemic instead of making payments. She also said: "The U.S. recently approved the doubling of the New Arrangements to Borrow, and our Executive Board yesterday agreed on a new round of bilateral borrowing to secure the IMF’s $1 trillion lending capacity." |
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