SDR allocation no panacea for distressed frontiers

A fresh allocation of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), if implemented, would provide a welcome boost to the depleted foreign exchange reserves of some distressed frontier economies. But an allocation wouldn’t address underlying dire debt dynamics, notably in Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and Zambia.

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