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Tunisia desperately needs access to the special drawing rights in order to avoid defaulting on external debt and to stabilize the economy, Porter said.

Low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries can apply to get the financing, which will channel special drawing rights from countries with strong external positions, according to the Fund's website.

Congress is doing its best to bury the initiative on special drawing rights.

The completion of the review, pending since earlier this year, would make available 750 million in IMF special drawing rights, or around $1 billion, bringing total disbursements so far to about $3 billion.

To help with this challenge, Georgieva said the IMF has provided $118 billion in new financing to 87 countries and approved a $650 billion increase in the agency’s special drawing rights, the biggest in history.