The Cape Verdean authorities consider it a priority to strengthen debt management.
Notable progress has already been made:
• Debt sustainability analyses (DSAs) are now conducted annually. The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Cape Verde (BCV) recently conducted a joint DSA applying the Bank-Fund Debt Sustainability Framework. The exercise benefited from assistance from Debt Relief International (DRI) and UNDP. The next DSA will be conducted in early 2009 at the beginning of the preparation of the 2010 budget to help determine the borrowing envelope consistent with debt sustainability.
• Internal controls have been substantially improved. Software from the Commonwealth Secretariat was upgraded and now records state guarantees as well as debt. With the assistance of the Crown Agents, the system will be fully operational by year-end. The software will allow for currency decomposition of the debt stock, be linked to the Government’s Financial Control Network (SIGOF), and allow for compilation of debt data in the new chart of public accounts (PNCP).
The authorities intend to further strengthen their debt management practices:
• The institutional framework for debt management will be adapted. The organic law of the Ministry of Finance will be amended to give the debt management office a clear mandate, and the budget execution law will be changed to allow the Treasury to manage debt efficiently.
• A new debt management strategy will be embedded in the procedures manual of the debt management office.
• The domestic market for Treasury securities will be developed. With MCC financing, Treasury securities will be easily available for purchase by nonbanks to make the market more efficient and liquid and reduce borrowing costs.
• Capacity in the debt office will be reinforced. A new financial analyst was hired in September, and another will be hired in 2009. Portugal trained four staff in debt management in September.
Source;Cape Verde: Fifth Review Under the Policy Support Instrument - Staff Report
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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, We Are Opting Out of Credit.
All of Our Economic Problems Find They Root in the Existence of Credit.
Out of the $5,000,000,000,000 given out to the banks, that is $1,000 for every inhabitant of this planet, what is it exactly that WE, The People, got?
A Credit Free, Free Market Economy Is Possible.
Both Dynamic on the Short Run & Stable on the Long Run.
I Propose, Hence, to Lead for You an Exit Out of Credit:
Let me outline for you my proposed strategy:
✔ Preserve Your Belongings.
✔ The Property Title: Opt Out of Credit.
✔ The Credit Free Money: The Dinar-Shekel AKA The DaSh, Symbol: - .
✔ Asset Transfer: The Right Grant Operation.
✔ A Specific Application of Employment Interest and Money.
[A Tract Intended For my Fellows Economists].
If Risk Free Interest Rates Are at 0.00% Doesn't That Mean That Credit is Worthless?
Since credit based currencies are managed by setting interest rates, on which all control has been lost, are they managed anymore?
We Need, Hence, Cancel All Interest Bearing Debt and Abolish Interest Bearing Credit.
In This Age of Turbulence The People Wants an Exit Out of Credit: An Adventure in a New World Economic Order.
The other option would be to wait till most of the productive assets of the economy get physically destroyed either by war or by rust.
It will be either awfully deadly or dramatically long.
A price none of us can afford to pay.
“The current crisis can be overcome only by developing a sense of common purpose. The alternative to a new international order is chaos.”
- Henry A. Kissinger
Let me provide you with a link to my press release for my open letter to you:
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Quantitative [Ooops! I Meant Credit] Easing Can't Work!
I am, Mr Chairman, Yours Sincerely,
Shalom P. Hamou AKA 'MC Shalom'
Chief Economist - Master Conductor
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