It describes different lending schemes of IMF along with eligibility criteria and access limit under concessional and non-concessional conditionalities.
India’s Resilient External Debt
Summary:
The official documents published by GOI and RBI make incisive analysis of the composition, size, sustainability, trend and overall management of India’s external debt.
As per RBI, the country’s external debt stock which stood at US$ 405 billion as at June-end 2013 has increased to US$ 450.1 billion as at June-end 2014 registering an increase of 11.1 per cent.
According to IMF, debt service -to-export ratio is a key indicator as a measure of repaying capacity of a country. The lower the ratio, the less vulnerable is the economy to external shocks. The debt service ratio of India which peaked 35.3 per cent in 1990-91 in the wake of Balance of Payment crisis declined to 16.6 per cent in 2000-01 and further brought down to a more comfortable level of 5.9 per cent in 2013-14. The import cover of reserves, which stood at 9.5 months at end-March 2011 has declined to 7.0 months at the end-March 2013, still above comfort level. The CAD to GDP ratio deteriorated to 4.7 per cent in 2012-13, mainly on account of slowdown in major trading partners and rise in gold imports. It, however, improved to 1.7 per cent in 2013-14 due to measures taken by policy makers. The rising level of external debt does not necessarily translate into increasing debt burden, as it would also depend on the growth, growth potential of the economy and the export earnings.
I
ndia’s external debt is characterized by resilience and sustainability. The country’s external debt statistics are compiled and disseminated by Government of India (GOI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on a quarterly basis. As per the standard practice, the external debt data for the quarter ending March and June are released by RBI; the data as at September-end and December-end are disseminated by the Ministry of Finance, GOI. Further, Ministry of Finance publishes every year “India’s External Debt-A Status Report” as at March-end. These official documents make incisive analysis of the composition, size, sustainability, trend and overall management of India’s external debt.
As per RBI, the country’s external debt stock which stood at US$ 405 billion as at June-end 2013 has increased to US$ 450.1 billion as at June-end 2014 registering an increase of 11.1 per cent.
The composition of India’s external debt is shown below:
[Amount: US$ billion]
Composition June 2013 June 2014
Multilateral 51.72 53.74
Bilateral 24.82 24.72
Trade Credit 17.53 16.04
Commercial Borrowing 135.81 153.85
NRI Deposits 71.12 106.25
Short-Term ( Trade Credit) 96.76 87.90
International Monetary Fund 5.98 6.15
Rupee Debt 1.25 1.50
(Source: Reserve Bank of India, Press Release, September 30, 2014)
According to RBI’s Annual Report 2013-14, the country’s foreign exchange reserve recorded US$ 316.14 billion vis-à-vis ext
It describes different lending schemes of IMF along with eligibility criteria and access limit under concessional and non-concessional conditionalities.
India’s Resilient External Debt
Summary:
The official documents published by GOI and RBI make incisive analysis of the composition, size, sustainability, trend and overall management of India’s external debt.
As per RBI, the country’s external debt stock which stood at US$ 405 billion as at June-end 2013 has increased to US$ 450.1 billion as at June-end 2014 registering an increase of 11.1 per cent.
According to IMF, debt service -to-export ratio is a key indicator as a measure of repaying capacity of a country. The lower the ratio, the less vulnerable is the economy to external shocks. The debt service ratio of India which peaked 35.3 per cent in 1990-91 in the wake of Balance of Payment crisis declined to 16.6 per cent in 2000-01 and further brought down to a more comfortable level of 5.9 per cent in 2013-14. The import cover of reserves, which stood at 9.5 months at end-March 2011 has declined to 7.0 months at the end-March 2013, still above comfort level. The CAD to GDP ratio deteriorated to 4.7 per cent in 2012-13, mainly on account of slowdown in major trading partners and rise in gold imports. It, however, improved to 1.7 per cent in 2013-14 due to measures taken by policy makers. The rising level of external debt does not necessarily translate into increasing debt burden, as it would also depend on the growth, growth potential of the economy and the export earnings.
I
ndia’s external debt is characterized by resilience and sustainability. The country’s external debt statistics are compiled and disseminated by Government of India (GOI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on a quarterly basis. As per the standard practice, the external debt data for the quarter ending March and June are released by RBI; the data as at September-end and December-end are disseminated by the Ministry of Finance, GOI. Further, Ministry of Finance publishes every year “India’s External Debt-A Status Report” as at March-end. These official documents make incisive analysis of the composition, size, sustainability, trend and overall management of India’s external debt.
As per RBI, the country’s external debt stock which stood at US$ 405 billion as at June-end 2013 has increased to US$ 450.1 billion as at June-end 2014 registering an increase of 11.1 per cent.
The composition of India’s external debt is shown below:
[Amount: US$ billion]
Composition June 2013 June 2014
Multilateral 51.72 53.74
Bilateral 24.82 24.72
Trade Credit 17.53 16.04
Commercial Borrowing 135.81 153.85
NRI Deposits 71.12 106.25
Short-Term ( Trade Credit) 96.76 87.90
International Monetary Fund 5.98 6.15
Rupee Debt 1.25 1.50
(Source: Reserve Bank of India, Press Release, September 30, 2014)
According to RBI’s Annual Report 2013-14, the country’s foreign exchange reserve recorded US$ 316.14 billion vis-à-vis ext
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The construction industry plays an important role in any economy, and its activities are vital to the achievement
of the socio-economic development goals of a nation.
In Ghana, the construction and housing industry plays an immeasurable role in the national developmental
agenda. What however, appears to be debatable is whether the industry wields the much expected driving force
required to pronounce its vital contribution towards accelerated national growth in terms of infrastructural
development. This paper assesses the extent to which Mobilization Advance Payment (MAP) contribute to the
output of small scale contractors in the Tamale metropolis. Thirty (30) construction firms, fifteen (15)
consultancy firms and fifteen (15) financial institutions were surveyed, and Chi-Squared (X2) test at α=0.05was
run on responses using SPSS. The study revealed that 49% of key stakeholders in the construction industry in
the Tamale metropolis see mobilization advance payment from clients as the most accessible and affordable
form of construction financing. This was closely followed by Banks/Saving & Loans (regulated financial
institution) with 43%, and 8% for non-regulated financial institutions. A significantly high number of
consultants (60%) agreed that mobilization advance payment is the most accessible and affordable form of
construction financing. The Chi-Squared (X2) Test on MAP and contractors performance also revealed an X2
statistic of ≈0.711 for a degrees of freedom of 4 which means that MAP arrangements for contractors contribute
significantly to their output.
Regrettable though, the misappropriation or misuse of such funds by some contractors has resulted in
difficulties in accessing mobilization advance payments even by genuine contractors in dire need of working
capital. Abandoned projects, delay in project delivery, cost overruns and employment of unqualified personnel
among others result from the unavailability of this accessible and affordable form of construction financing.
This adversely affects the performance of contractors and the overall project success. It was strongly
recommended that clients strive to make mobilization advance payments available and easily accessible to
contractors to enhance their performance.
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The construction industry plays an important role in any economy, and its activities are vital to the achievement
of the socio-economic development goals of a nation.
In Ghana, the construction and housing industry plays an immeasurable role in the national developmental
agenda. What however, appears to be debatable is whether the industry wields the much expected driving force
required to pronounce its vital contribution towards accelerated national growth in terms of infrastructural
development. This paper assesses the extent to which Mobilization Advance Payment (MAP) contribute to the
output of small scale contractors in the Tamale metropolis. Thirty (30) construction firms, fifteen (15)
consultancy firms and fifteen (15) financial institutions were surveyed, and Chi-Squared (X2) test at α=0.05was
run on responses using SPSS. The study revealed that 49% of key stakeholders in the construction industry in
the Tamale metropolis see mobilization advance payment from clients as the most accessible and affordable
form of construction financing. This was closely followed by Banks/Saving & Loans (regulated financial
institution) with 43%, and 8% for non-regulated financial institutions. A significantly high number of
consultants (60%) agreed that mobilization advance payment is the most accessible and affordable form of
construction financing. The Chi-Squared (X2) Test on MAP and contractors performance also revealed an X2
statistic of ≈0.711 for a degrees of freedom of 4 which means that MAP arrangements for contractors contribute
significantly to their output.
Regrettable though, the misappropriation or misuse of such funds by some contractors has resulted in
difficulties in accessing mobilization advance payments even by genuine contractors in dire need of working
capital. Abandoned projects, delay in project delivery, cost overruns and employment of unqualified personnel
among others result from the unavailability of this accessible and affordable form of construction financing.
This adversely affects the performance of contractors and the overall project success. It was strongly
recommended that clients strive to make mobilization advance payments available and easily accessible to
contractors to enhance their performance.
Weaker Corporate Balance sheet and its implication Mohit Kumar
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As of my last update, Pi is still in the testing phase and is not tradable on any exchanges.
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@Pi_vendor_247
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@Pi_vendor_247
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@Pi_vendor_247
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What price will pi network be listed on exchangesDOT TECH
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I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi vendor to trade with.
@Pi_vendor_247
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Solving India’s Renewable
Energy Financing Challenge:
Instruments to Provide Low-cost, Long-term Debt
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Key Findings (1/4)
• In our previous work1, we found that inferior terms of debt –
i.e., high cost, short tenor, and variable rate – raises the cost
of renewable energy in India by 24-32% compared with
similar projects in the US.
• In parallel work2, we show that debt-related subsidies are
more cost-effective than the existing policy support
mechanisms, and can reduce the overall cost of renewable
energy subsidies as much as 28-78% compared with existing
federal policies.
1Meeting India’s Renewable Energy Targets: The Financing Challenge, CPI 2012
2Solving India’s Renewable Energy Financing Challenge: Which Federal Policies can be Most Effective?, CPI 2014
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Key Findings (2/4)
• In this study, we find that a number of (primarily market-
based) financing instruments have the potential to provide
and/or facilitate low-cost, long-term debt for renewable
energy in India.
• These instruments can reduce the delivered cost of
renewable energy by 10-25%, by reducing the cost of debt
by up to 1.4-4.5 percentage points and increasing the
tenor by up to 5-8 years.
• Additionally, the government can also add an explicit
subsidy to further incentivize the borrowers on top of the
benefits that these instruments naturally offer.
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Key Findings (3/4)
Source: CPI Analysis
The baseline cost for Govt. bonds and IDF (MF) is cost of typical domestic loans (12.3%) and for PRG and Liquidity facility it is cost of typical fixed rate foreign loan (13%).
The baseline cost for PCG is the average annual return of an A rated bond (12.8%).
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Key Findings (4/4)
• Each instrument, or set of instruments, has benefits and
trade-offs.
• Which set of instruments the Government of India
ultimately chooses will depend on the most important
priorities.
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Methodology
We examined a number of financial instruments that can be used to reduce the
cost of debt for renewable power projects. We explored three categories of
instruments:
A. Instruments that provide access to untapped low-cost, long-term funds from
domestic capital markets;
B. Instruments that provide access to foreign debt; and
C. Guarantee instruments that mitigate the risk associated with projects.
We have selected a few instruments based on:
1. Ability to lower the cost and extend the tenor of debt at a fixed interest rate;
2. Ability to increase the availability of debt by attracting private and foreign
capital;
3. Feasibility of implementing the instrument in the Indian context.
Since each of these instruments represents a different kind of debt, we
estimated the reduction in cost of debt for each instrument based on the
typical baseline cost applicable for that particular instrument.
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Government bonds provide the most benefits, but carry the risk of
crowding out private financing (1/2)
Government of India can provide concessional finance to renewable power
projects by raising money through issue of bonds and on-lending the proceeds
to project developers.
Source: RBI, SBI, CPI Analysis
Potential savings from government borrowing and direct on-lending program
A direct government borrowing and lending program could reduce the cost of renewable
energy by ~25%, by reducing the cost of debt by up to 4.5 percentage points and
increasing tenor by 10 years, compared with domestic commercial loans.
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Government bonds provide the most benefits, but carry the risk of
crowding out private financing (2/2)
• The government has three options in lending:
- Lend at the borrowing rate of 7.8% or lower;
- Lend at the lowest possible commercial margin (i.e., 2 percentage points);
- Lend at the lowest possible sector-focused, government-owned financial institution
margin (i.e., 3.4 percentage points).
• The implementation feasibility is moderate due to lack of a precedent in India
and the risk of crowding out private investment.
- The government should design such a program with checks and balances.
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Infrastructure Debt Fund – Mutual funds would provide the second highest
benefit, depending on their success in developing the corporate bond
market (1/2)
IDF-MFs may help in easing the financing challenges of renewables by providing
liquidity to the bond market and attracting long-term sources of funds.
- IDF-MFs would attract long-term funds if they could manage a high enough rating
for their units to enable insurance and pension funds to invest in them.
- A higher rating can be obtained through portfolio diversification, sponsor company
strength, and through use of credit enhancement mechanism for the underlying
debt securities.
IDF-MFs would reduce the cost of renewable energy by ~14.5%, by reducing the cost of debt
by up to 3 percentage points and increasing the tenor by 5 years, compared with a typical
domestic loan.
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Infrastructure Debt Fund – Mutual funds would provide the second highest
benefit, depending on their success in developing the corporate bond
market (2/2)
• Renewable project developers would likely raise debt finance directly from the
corporate bond market instead of raising loans from a financial intermediary
once the liquidity in corporate bond market increases.
- A developer could possibly issue a bond at a rate between 9.3*-12.3%, with the
maximum possible saving of 3 percentage points (=12.3-9.3%).
- The benefits are largely dependent on IDF-MFs ability to develop the corporate bond
market.
- A developed bond market will also allow project developers to increase their debt
tenors to 15 years or more from what is currently available (10 years) from the
domestic loan market.
• Implementation feasibility in India is high as the regulatory framework is already
in place.
*National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) — a largely government-owned enterprise with an AAA rating and therefore, bringing the lowest possible cost of funds —issued a 10-year
corporate bond in 2012 with a coupon rate of 9.26% (NSE, 2013)
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Partial Credit Guarantees (PCGs) would benefit the borrowers
depending on the deal structure and the development of the
corporate bond market (1/2)
• PCGs reduce the cost of debt by enhancing the credit rating of a project.
- A higher credit rating would help in attracting additional low-cost, long-term funds
such as insurance and pension funds.
• We estimate that the net reduction in cost of debt through a PCG would be in
the range of 1.4-1.9 percentage points.
- The cost savings are largely due to reduction in risk for investors due to credit
enhancement.
PCGs would reduce the cost of renewable energy by ~10.5%, by reducing the cost of debt
by up to 1.9 percentage points and increasing tenor by 5 years, compared with typical cost
of an A rated bond.
+For a BBB rated bond, ADB’s guarantee fee is between 1.3-2.1% of the outstanding bond value. We assumed an average of 1.7%.
#For a BBB rated bond, IFC’s guarantee fee is estimated in the range of 1.2-3.0% of the outstanding debt. We assumed an average of 2.1%.
Source: ADB, IFC, CPI Analysis
Impact of PCG on Cost of Debt
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Partial Credit Guarantees (PCGs) would benefit the borrowers
depending on the deal structure and the development of the
corporate bond market (2/2)
• Raising debt from the corporate bond market allows extending the tenor by 5
years compared with the typical loan tenors available through commercial
banks.
• Implementation feasibility in India is high due to existence of a precedent.
– However, the success of PCGs will depend on (a) the development of corporate
bond market and (b) the structure of the transaction.
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Partial Risk Guarantees (PRGs) help in tapping foreign funds at lower
cost; require simple deal structures to increase their use (1/2)
• PRGs protect foreign debt investors from political risks such as breach of
contract by the state, expropriation, and currency inconvertibility.
– PRGs would reduce the volatility premium that is included in the cost of foreign loans
net of guarantee fee.
– The net reduction in cost of debt depends on the structure of the guarantee and the
extent of risk coverage.
PRGs would reduce the cost of renewable energy by ~12.7%, by reducing the cost of debt
by up to 1.8 percentage points and increasing the tenor by up to 8 years.
Cost Reduction from PRG
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Partial Risk Guarantees (PRGs) help in tapping foreign funds at lower
cost; require simple deal structures to increase their use (2/2)
• PRGs would most likely extend the tenor up to 18 years from the usual 10 years
as it reduces the risk involved for foreign lenders.
• Implementation feasibility in India is moderate as multilateral agencies usually
require a counter-guarantee from national governments.
– This requirement led to lower than expected up-take of PRGs globally due to complex
stakeholder interactions.
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Exchange rate liquidity facility would offer a cheaper currency hedging
option, but its suitability for Indian conditions needs to be studied further
(1/2)
The liquidity facility could encourage project developers to opt for foreign loans
as it provides a cheaper currency hedge option compared with the existing
market instruments.
The liquidity facility could lower the cost of renewable energy by ~11.2%, by reducing the
cost of debt by up to 1.4 percentage points and extending tenor by up to 8 years,
compared with commercial foreign loans.
Savings in cost of foreign debt with liquidity facility
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Exchange rate liquidity facility would offer a cheaper currency hedging
option, but its suitability for Indian conditions needs to be studied further
(2/2)
• The cost savings for a project developer = cost of currency hedge – (the cost
of liquidity facility + inflation differential).
• The liquidity facility would help to extend the tenor of foreign loans to up to 18
years as it reduces the risk for lenders.
• Implementation feasibility is moderate as the instrument was not widely used
so far and lacks a precedent in India.
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Conclusions and future work
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Conclusions (1/2)
• The government of India would need to take a lead role in introducing
financing instruments as private players would find it difficult to introduce new
instruments that haven’t been used in the country before.
• Government bonds have the highest potential to reduce costs (by up to 4.5
percentage points) and extend tenor by 10 years, but should incorporate
proper checks and balances to avoid crowding out private investment.
• Infrastructure Debt Funds - Mutual Funds would reduce the cost of debt by up
to 3 percentage points and increase tenor by up to 5 years, but the accrual of
these benefits depends on the development of the corporate bond market.
• Partial credit guarantees would reduce the cost of debt by up to 1.9
percentage points and increase tenor by up to 5 years, depending on the
development of the corporate bond market and the deal structure.
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Conclusions (2/2)
• Partial risk guarantees would attract foreign funds and reduce the cost of debt
by up to 1.8 percentage points and increase the tenor by up to 8 years. These
guarantees require simple deal structures to be widely adopted.
• Foreign exchange liquidity facility would reduce the cost of debt by up to 1.4
percentage points and extend tenor by up to 8 years, but its suitability for
Indian conditions needs to be studied further.
• The government could reduce the cost of debt further by extending an
explicit subsidy through these instruments.
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Future work
Depending on which instrument mixes seem most relevant to India, we
recommend further analysis to examine the instruments in greater detail:
• For the government bond: on the duration of a direct government lending
program for renewable energy financing to achieve a pre-determined target,
such as capacity installation, without crowding out private finance in the long-
run.
• Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDF): to explore design issues for making IDF-NBFCs
suitable for renewable energy financing.
• Partial credit guarantee: on the design aspects of partial credit guarantees,
such as the nature of coverage and risk sharing among stakeholders.
Implementation issues such as project identification and sourcing of funds may
also be explored.
• Partial risk guarantee: on the design of the instrument as well as the success of
existing partial risk guarantee programs and the types of risk that should be
covered under such a guarantee.
• Exchange rate liquidity facility: to examine the foreign exchange liquidity
facility in more detail to identify a design that is suitable for Indian conditions.
We also recommend analysis on specific issues such as the size of the liquidity
facility and design of tariff.
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