Some central bankers fear that the IMF will relax its loan conditions on debtor nations such as Greece.

From Brazil in 1998 to Turkey right now, loan conditions have concentrated on the big picture - and have made a difference in bringing about recovery.

A10 U.S. effort to make Mexican loan conditions more palatable.

The I.M.F. has felt that it should be the final arbiter of the loan conditions.

But Treasury officials acknowledged today that while they had talked about the loan conditions in general terms with Mexico, there was nothing on paper.

Already, third-world countries such as India are complaining that they face tougher loan conditions than Russia.

These liabilities often come in the form of special loan conditions, like indexing loan repayments to changes in the borrowing country's exchange rate.

Competition between syndicate leaders is conducted on the basis of spread size and other loan conditions.

Protestors seem far more concerned about the war in Iraq and the American presidential campaign than loan conditions and debt relief.

Under a common terms agreement, the five financial institutions have agreed to provide the same loan conditions to the ACP.