2021 SDR Allocation and Other Sources of Support (USD billions) The 2021 allocation of Special Drawing Rights represented the best source of economic support for countries overall but falls short of what is needed
The exchange rate used is SDR 1=1.4 USD. Countries in the sample are the 119 low- and middle-income countries included in the World Bank’s International Debt Statistics database. The pandemic fiscal response equivalent to advanced economies is the amount of fiscal support this set of countries would have if it were proportional, by GDP, to the amounts that advanced economies created in response to the pandemic. Thirty-one countries received support under CCRT; at least 48 received support under DSSI.