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AID: Mozambique (MRB Nov 2001): Debt switches urged.

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Mozambican Finance Minister Luisa Diogo has challenged bilateral creditor countries to pursue creative methods towards debt alleviation and has suggested the transformation of debt into development programmes.

Diogo was speaking at a joint Maputo press conference on at the end of the first regional meeting of finance ministers of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Mozambique has reached the completion point of the enhanced HIPC initiative of the World Bank. This measure, plus the original HIPC initiative, led to the country's debt stock declining by 73 per cent, and it now stands at around 750 million US dollars. The ...

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