IMF management to recommend $15 billion Stand-By for Brazil

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In a news brief dated August 3, IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler announced that IMF management intends to recommend to the Executive Board the approval of a new Stand-By Arrangement for Brazil for the period through December 2002.Management will recommend that approximately $15 billion, or 400 percent of quota, be made available to Brazil under this new arrangement. Of this total, about $12.5 billion would be provided under the Supplemental Reserve Facility. The authorities have indicated that they intend to treat the arrangement as precautionary.

The Executive Board is expected to consider Brazil's request for this support in September 2001, and the first tranche [drawing] of about $4.6 billion would be available upon approval of the new program by the Board.

The Brazilian authorities will announce in Brasilia next week the policy measures associated with the new...