Ball now in Tunisia's court regarding $1.9bn IMF bailout

Officials from the IMF, the World Bank and Italy have all commented on the proposed bailout package this week as a Tunisian delegation joins the spring meeting of the multilateral institutions in Washington.
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Jerome Vacher, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) envoy to Tunisia, is pictured during an interview with AFP in the capital Tunis, on Jan. 14, 2022. Vacher, speaking in an interview at the end of his three-year term as the global lender's envoy to the North African country, said the coronavirus pandemic had helped create Tunisia's "worst recession since independence" in 1956. - Fethi Belaid/Getty/AFP
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The ball is now in the Tunisian government’s court as lawmakers from the North African country meet officials in Washington this week to discuss a $1.9 billion bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 

Tunisia is facing a dire economic crisis with inflation at 11% and food becoming increasingly scarce. This scarcity is compounded by water rationing in many parts of the country due to a drought, which is now in its fourth year. 

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