An IMF mission meets with Argentina's finance minister

Argentine Finance Minister Nicolás Dujovne met today with a group of technicians from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who traveled to Buenos Aires to review the progress of the public accounts of the South American country.

Buenos Aires, Nov 10 (EFE) .- Argentine Finance Minister Nicolás Dujovne met today with a group of technicians from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who traveled to Buenos Aires to review the progress of the public accounts of the South American country.

The Ministry of Finance did not give details of the content of the meeting, but indicated that the IMF delegation was headed by Roberto Caldarelli.

Dujovne was accompanied, among others, by the Secretary of Economic Policy, Sebastián Galiani, the Secretary of the Treasury, Rodrigo Pena, and the Argentine representative before the IMF, Gabriel Lopetegui.

The technicians of the multilateral organization arrived in Buenos Aires last week and have held meetings with the ministers of Finance, Luis Caputo, and the Interior, Rogelio Frigerio, with the president of the Argentine Central Bank, Federico Sturzenegger.

This is the second mission that the IMF performs to audit the accounts of Argentina since the arrival of Mauricio Macri to the Presidency, at the end of 2015.

The mission aims to conduct a general review of Argentina's economy, within of what is known as "Article IV", which involves the visit of IMF economists to collect information and exchange views with government officials, with members of the sector private, with members of Parliament and with civil organizations.

After these meetings, the technicians will report to the executive board of the IMF for discussion.

Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF, Alejandro Werner, said Thursday, when participating in a seminar in Buenos Aires, that the "strategy" of Argentina is the "correct".

In his opinion, this strategy "already gave its first fruits by normalizing the balance of payments, moving to target mechanisms to lower inflation, freeing the exchange rate, implement regulatory changes at the sectoral level and put the emphasis on infrastructure. "

It also stressed that" the rebound of investment shows that the private sector puts money in the Argentine strategy. "