Rodrigo Rato
Rodrigo Rato
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredois a Spanish political figure who served in the government of Spain as Minister of the Economy from 1996 to 2004; a member of the conservative People's Party, he was also First Deputy Prime Minister from 2003 to 2004. Subsequently he became Managing Director of the International Monetary Fundand served from 2004 to 2007...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 March 1949
CountrySpain
senior development directors
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
errors trying imbalance
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
encouragement italian government
We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.
few next
We should be able to have this in the next few weeks.
acute recovery
We see a recovery in Europe, not very acute but a recovery, and we see a more broad-based recovery in Japan.
aware clearly companies consumers increase oil true
We see clearly that governments have to make consumers and companies aware of the true prices. This is not going to be just a short-lived increase in the oil prices.
avoiding declining financial fund implement incentives prospect provide sound strengthen support thus
The prospect of the fund declining to provide financial support would strengthen the incentives to implement sound policies, thus avoiding the need for fund support in the first place.
budget good year
This year is going to be challenging for the budget in the U.S. and probably we are going to see a resurgence of a deficit, which is not good news.
continuing economic global good large performance problem rests shaky
The problem is that good economic performance rests on a shaky foundation, because of large and continuing global imbalances.
demand great hints reduction second strong
We don't see a great reduction in demand... There have been some hints that demand will be receding in the second quarter, but we see strong demand in the world.
assistance balance countries existing experience financial programs provide providing support
We are prepared, as in the past, to provide financial support by augmenting existing programs or by providing new financial assistance to countries that experience drought-related balance of payments needs.
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Those are the three main elements in which we're working with Iraqi authorities,
cleared consistency data issues regarding
Those arrears have been cleared but also there are issues right now regarding the consistency of data and we are working on that.
absorb increase prices seen
We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.