Cinq pays étudient la possibilité de canaliser leurs DTS, a annoncé le président de la BAD.
La Banque africaine de développement pourrait mobiliser quatre fois plus de fonds.
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Japan, France and the UK are among five wealthy nations that have shown interest in channeling their rights to International Monetary Fund reserve assets to Africa's top development lender, which would boost the bank's ability to support poorer countries.
"We're getting positive signals about their willingness to consider giving it to us," African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said in an interview in Bloomberg's New York office Thursday. "The UK was very clear that they want to do that. Japan has been very supportive in that conversation," he said, adding that France is leading efforts, while Saudi Arabia and Canada are in talks with the lender.
The IMF's record $650 billion issuance of reserve assets known as special drawing rights, or SDRs, to its member nations last August went toward helping them with mounting debt and the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
IMF Members' Reserves Dry Up
More than 30 nations have used 90% or more of their latest SDR allocations