The amount of debt written off for each country is based on projections by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank of countries' future income and export growth. But the projections of likely future growth are too optimistic. Not only cynics but many of those directly involved in the process acknowledge that they had to be — so that the cost of the write-offs for the U.S. and European governments could be small enough to be politically swallowed.
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