{"id":29772,"date":"2022-11-23T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-did-not-accept-publication-of-technical-report-on-financial-assistance"},"modified":"2022-11-23T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:27:32","slug":"government-did-not-accept-publication-of-technical-report-on-financial-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-did-not-accept-publication-of-technical-report-on-financial-assistance","title":{"rendered":"Government did not accept publication of technical report on financial assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in Mozambique said yesterday that the Mozambican government had not allowed the dissemination of the technical report [staff report] on the contours of IMF financial assistance, which is usually disclosed in the programme presentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authorities asked to make changes to the initial report, in a process that is provided for in the internal regulations of the IMF.<\/p>\n

The authorities did not accept the publication, so what will be published in the coming days is the technical report [\u2018staff report\u2019] of the first review of the programme,\u201d Alvaro Piris said at the press conference to present the assessment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur policy is clear: the publication of technical reports is presumed but voluntary, so ultimately the authorities can withhold their consent to the publication of a country report, and they did, which, I admit, is not very common,\u201d the IMF mission chief replied when asked by Bloomberg about the absence of the report.<\/p>\n

The document that the Mozambican government prohibited from being released includes, as a rule, a letter signed by the authorities, usually the head of government, the finance minister and the central bank governor, in which the main reason for the request for financial assistance is detailed.<\/p>\n

This letter is usually accompanied by an IMF report on the country\u2019s needs and yet another government document, in which the authorities present the economic situation and explain what they intend to do to solve the problem or difficulty that motivates the request for IMF support, both documents often being many tens of pages long and providing a detailed written exposition of the country\u2019s financial situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authorities expressly did not want it to be published the way it was going to be published.<\/p>\n

I would say that I do not think it is an economically important matter, it is more a question of internal process and differences of views,\u201d Piris said, without specifying exactly what the problem was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it is in the interest of the international community or foreign investors in the country,\u201d he said, regarding the ban on disclosing the documents that make up the request for financial assistance, including the Debt Sustainability Analysis, which will only be published on the second evaluation of the programme in 2023.<\/p>\n

The IMF returned to assisting Mozambique only this year, after suspending budget aid due to the \u2018hidden debts\u2019 scandal in 2016, with a financial assistance programme worth US$456 million aimed at creating budgetary margin for government investment in human capital, climate adaptation and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll end-June 2022 program performance criteria, indicative targets and the structural benchmark were met.<\/p>\n

The monetary policy stance and proactive tightening since early 2021 are deemed appropriate to address higher than expected inflation,\u201d the IMF writes in the note by the board of directors that reports the approval of the first review of the Extended Credit Line (ECF).<\/p>\n

The approval of the first review of the three-year programme, approved in May of this year, represents an immediate disbursement of US$59.2 million (almost \u20ac58 million), out of a total of US$456 million dollars (\u20ac443 million) included in the financial adjustment programme, of which Mozambique has already received around US$150 million (\u20ac145 million).<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. 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