MADAyuMadyan - Greece Mahal: IMF
berkata peminjam perlu 'lupa' kira-kira € 7.4billion daripada pinjaman. Kerajaan zon
euro perlu bersedia untuk melupuskan ketulan besar pinjaman mereka kepada
Greece, kira-kira kira-kira € 7.4bn dalam tempoh dua tahun akan datang, menurut
IMF.
Untuk membuat hutang
Yunani terkawal, peminjam di negara ini mungkin terpaksa menerima kerugian
besar kepada bantuan mereka kepada Athens, Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa (IMF)
berkata dalam kajian keempat prestasi Greece di bawah program ekonomi, ia mesti
mengikut untuk melayakkan diri untuk pinjaman .
Hampir semua hutang
Yunani kini dipegang oleh kerajaan-kerajaan Eropah. Pada tahun 2013 ia dijangka
meningkat sehingga ke langit tinggi 176% daripada KDNK negara.
"Jika pelabur
tidak diyakinkan bahawa dasar untuk menangani masalah hutang boleh dipercayai,
pelaburan dan pertumbuhan akan menjadi tidak mungkin untuk pulih kerana
diprogramkan," kata IMF dalam laporan 207 muka surat. "Sekiranya
kebimbangan terhadap kemampanan hutang membuktikan akan berat ke atas sentimen
pelabur walaupun dengan rangka kerja untuk pelepasan hutang kini di tempat rakan-rakan
Eropah harus mempertimbangkan memberi bantuan yang akan melibatkan pengurangan
yang lebih cepat dalam hutang daripada kini diprogramkan."
Ia bukan kali pertama
IMF menggesa pemberi pinjaman kerajaan untuk melupuskan sebahagian daripada
pinjaman mereka untuk berjuang Greece. Perkara utama yang mengubah adalah skala
kerugian.
Laporan baru datang
hanya 2 bulan lebih awal daripada pilihan raya di Jerman, yang boleh menjadi
masalah sebenar bagi Canselor semasa Angela Merkel.
Cik Merkel dan
ahli-ahli pemerintah Kristian Demokratik Union beliau telah menegaskan Greece
perlu membayar hutang kembali sepenuhnya, bahawa tidak akan ada
"haircuts" atas pinjaman bailout mereka, Financial Times (FT)
berkata.
Pada hari Rabu, pegawai
Jerman berkata Greece telah memukul semua sasaran bailout itu. Jurucakap
Kementerian Kewangan Jerman, Martin Kotthaus, berkata tindakan kerajaan
baru-baru Yunani harapan diilhamkan ke dalam pasaran kewangan, dengan sebarang
panggilan lagi untuk bantuan mungkin melemahkan sentimen.
Walau bagaimanapun,
dalam kata-kata jurucakap bajet Jerman itu untuk pembangkang Demokratik Sosial
pihak Carsten Schneider IMF telah "bercakap benar pahit sekali lagi"
dan kegawatan kewangan semasa dalam Athens hasil daripada "dasar gagal
yang telah tegas dikejar" oleh Cik Merkel.
Costly Greece: IMF says lenders need to ‘forget’
about €7.4bn of its loans
about €7.4bn of its loans
MADAyuMadyan - Eurozone governments
should be prepared to write off big chunks of their loans to Greece, around
about €7.4bn within the next two years, according to the IMF.
To make Greek debt
manageable, the country’s lenders may be forced to accept big losses on their
aid to the Athens, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told in its fourth
review of Greece's performance under an economic program it must follow to
qualify for the loans.
Almost all of the Greek
debt is now held by European governments. In 2013 it’s expected to go up to the
sky-high 176% of the country’s GDP.
“If investors are not
persuaded that the policy for dealing with the debt problem is credible,
investment and growth will be unlikely to recover as programmed,” the IMF said in the 207-page report. “Should
debt sustainability concerns prove to be weighing on investor sentiments even
with the framework for debt relief now in place, European partners should
consider providing relief that would entail a faster reduction in debt than
currently programmed.”
It’s not the first time
the IMF has called on the government lenders to write off part of their loans
to struggling Greece. The main thing that’s changing is the scale of the
losses.
The new report comes
just 2 months ahead of the polls in Germany, which can become a real problem
for its current Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Ms Merkel and other
members of her ruling Christian Democratic Union have insisted Greece should
pay its debt back in full; that there would be no “haircuts” on their bailout
loans, the Financial Times (FT) said.
On Wednesday, German
officials said Greece was hitting all of its bailout targets. The German
finance ministry spokesman, Martin Kotthaus, said recent action by the Greek
government inspired hope into the financial markets, with any further calls for
help probably undermining improving sentiment.
However, in the words
of German’s budget spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic party Carsten
Schneider the IMF had “told the bitter truth yet again” and the
current financial turmoil in the Athens resulted from the “failed policy
that has been decisively pursued” by Ms Merkel.