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- <title>
- Apr. 17, 1989: Business Notes:Third World Loans
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 17, 1989 Alaska
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- THIRD WORLD LOANS
- How to Spell Debt Relief
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- <p> The rhetoric from the International Monetary Fund and the
- World Bank last week was unequivocal. Declaring debt relief for
- the Third World to be a "matter of urgency," the two agencies
- put their support behind the plan proposed last month by U.S.
- Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady. His program calls for a
- gradual reduction in the $350 billion owed to commercial banks
- by the 15 largest borrowers.
- </p>
- <p> Under the relief plan, borrowers could exchange current
- loans for new ones that would be smaller in principal or would
- pay lower interest rates. To give bankers an incentive to
- accept such arrangements, the IMF and the World Bank are
- debating whether to provide partial guarantees for some of the
- borrowers' interest payments.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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