The authorities have made significant progress on their comprehensive debt restructuring strategy. They completed the domestic debt restructuring last year and the restructuring of their Eurobonds in October...
This paper explores the effect of oil price fluctuations on the stock returns of U.S. oil firms using an identification strategy through heteroskedasticity, exploiting the 2020 oil price crash. The results...
The Debt Reduction Facility (DRF) for IDA-only Countries was established by the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development...
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) trust funds country report FY2009-FY2010 for Liberia, this includes: disbursements, approvals...
The Debt Reduction Facility (DRF) for International Development Association (IDA)-only counties was established by the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)...
This press release announces that Liberia on April 16, 2009, announced that it had significantly reduced its foreign debt by buying back one billion two million US dollars in outstanding government debt...
This paper is organized in six sections. Section II presents an overview of the Debt Reduction Facility (DRF). Section III outlines progress in implementation of DRF-supported operations. Section IV sets...
This Memorandum and Recommendation grants up to US$ 900,000 from the Debt Reduction Facility for IDA-Only Countries to the Democratic Republic of Congo (hereafter the "DRC") to cover the cost of hiring...
On October 3, 2004, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number five hundred and sixty three. It was resolved that: (a) the Report of the...
The report reviews progress in implementation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative since September 2003: six countries (Guyana, Nicaragua, Niger, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Ghana) have...