VOL. XXXI

NO. 43

1-AUGUST-1988

International and Banking News

AID FLOWS

IMF Lends Tunisia $27Mn

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to lend Tunisia $270mn,according to a statement issued in Washington on 25 July. Tunisia already owesthe Fund around the same amount, out of a total debt of over $6bn. Accordingto the Fund's announcement, Tunisia's projected economic targets for 1988 havebeen scaled down because of drought and locusts, and the agreed objective for1988 is a production...