30/09/2022
Lets understand the business concept of International Monetary Fund IMF. IMF offers:
Stand-By Arrangements (SBAs)
Extended Fund Facility (EFF)
Precautionary and Liquidity Line (PLL)
Flexible Credit Line (FCL)
Standby Credit Facility (SCF)
Extended Credit Facility (ECF)
Policy Coordination Instrument (PCI)
Policy Support Instrument (PSI)
The Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF)
Malawi is indeed of ECF and what is this,
The Extended Credit Facility (ECF) provides financial assistance to countries with protracted balance of payments problems. The ECF was created under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) as part of a broader reform to make the Fund’s financial support more flexible and better tailored to the diverse needs of low-income countries (LICs), including in times of crisis. The ECF is the Fund’s main tool for providing medium-term support to LICs.
Purpose.
The ECF supports countries’ economic programs aimed at moving toward a stable and sustainable macroeconomic position consistent with strong and durable poverty reduction and growth. The ECF may also help catalyze additional foreign aid.
Eligibility.
The ECF is available to all PRGT-eligible member countries that face a protracted balance of payments problem, i.e. when the resolution of the underlying macroeconomic imbalances would be expected to extend over the medium or longer term.
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