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President<\/strong>\u00a0of the Caribbean Development Bank, (CDB)\u00a0Dr Hyginus \u2018Gene\u2019 Leon<\/strong>\u00a0has proposed that the US$2.5 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) available to Caribbean countries from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) be pooled to unlock even more financing in the capital markets.\u00a0Dr. Leon<\/strong>\u00a0has also sounded his intention to present a proposal to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads on a financial mechanism to achieve this objective.<\/p>

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Speaking at the second edition of the Bank\u2019s President\u2019s Chat forum yesterday, featuring special guest\u00a0Prime Minister of Barbados<\/strong>,\u00a0Hon. Mia Amor Mottley<\/strong>, the CDB\u00a0President<\/strong>\u00a0advised that combining the recent SDR allocations assigned by the IMF could be the practical and powerful collaboration needed to improve the economic position of the Region.<\/p>

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The SDR is an interest-bearing international reserve asset created by the IMF. Members can use their SDR allocation to supplement or build their national reserves instead of accruing debt. In August 2021, the IMF implemented its largest general allocation to date of SDR 456 billion (US$650 billion) to address global need in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n

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Dr Leon<\/strong>, who worked with the IMF for more than two decades, noted that CDB\u2019s Borrowing Member Countries collectively had about 1.7 billion SDRs allocated to them. He advised that rather than each country drawing down and using its individual allocation, a more effective solution would be a combined financial instrument for the Region\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlternatively, we have an opportunity to say, \u2018what if we pool all of that 1.7 billions SDRs \u2013 [about] US$ 2.5 billion, and now invest it into an equivalent reserve asset type of instrument that could be issued by a CDB?<\/em>\u201d he stated.<\/p>

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He laid out how this financial instrument could then be used in turn to invigorate the capital markets and access more and better financing for the Caribbean\u2019s development needs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat could now be used through the higher rating and a stronger link with the capital markets to now energise a crowding-in of that very capital we\u2019ve been talking about before. You may be able to think immediately of a pool of funds that could be as much as US$5 billion or even more that could be used to help drive this very development agenda that we\u2019re talking about<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Mottley<\/strong>\u00a0uged CDB to advance the proposal quickly, pointing out that many countries would presently be making decisions on how they will use their SDR allocations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will certainly sit down with you and look at it because I\u2019ve been arguing for the last few years that we need to use what we have to unlock other funding. So, I\u2019d like to invite you to put something before the [CARICOM] Heads as soon as possible and let us discuss it because quite frankly a number of countries are making determinations now as to how they use their SDRs<\/em>,\u201d stated\u00a0Mottley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

She expanded on how Barbados was contemplating making use of its SDR allocation, adding:<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to be able to use ours in a way that has a meaningful legacy \u2013 Barbados has argued that we want to be able to go into the life sciences\u2026. When we look at how many people we\u2019ve produced out of the University of the West Indies in the last five years – it\u2019s about 6000 people [who have graduated] in the sciences and where have they gone? They\u2019re not doing the kind of higher value-added things they\u2019d love to do if we were in a larger economic space<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The CDB\u00a0President<\/strong>\u00a0underscored the importance of the Region working together to maximise the benefits of their SDR allocations, emphasising:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt will call for us recognising that individually if we used our SDR allocations or even if we left it there, we are much worse off than we could be if we were to pool and now utilise those SDRs through the mechanism of leverage in a way that helps build the very capital markets we say we don\u2019t have. But it calls for collaboration, cooperation in a regional sense<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President\u00a0of the Caribbean Development Bank, (CDB)\u00a0Dr Hyginus \u2018Gene\u2019 Leon\u00a0has proposed that the US$2.5 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) available to Caribbean countries from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) be pooled to unlock even more financing in the capital markets.\u00a0Dr. Leon\u00a0has also sounded his intention to present a proposal to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCall for Region to Collaborate to Capitalise on Available IMF Financing - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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