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<text id=89TT1010>
<title>
Apr. 17, 1989: Business Notes:Third World Loans
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Apr. 17, 1989 Alaska
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<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.
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