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
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There is a need to reduce obstacles to both upstream and downstream investment, and to invigorate conservation programs. These measures will take some time to show effect but surely the sooner we start the better.
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In Europe we think that the current policy of the ECB is appropriate... At least that is until there is a clear and stable recovery.
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This is a very good moment for Latin America to take advantage of very good economic circumstances.
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I'm very glad to see that the biggest shareholder of the Fund has already expressed publicly its support for this agenda and other significant countries have done so to.
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They are opening their exchange rate to market forces. That is what we advised them to do and they should continue in that direction. They need to strengthen their banking system, and that is a big challenge.
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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.
acute recovery
We see a recovery in Europe, not very acute but a recovery, and we see a more broad-based recovery in Japan.
economy expected faster growing
We see the world economy growing faster than we expected in September.
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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.
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.
few next
We should be able to have this in the next few weeks.
among reforms
There was a consensus, at least among the two big parties, that reforms were crucial.
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So we see clearly that the Indian government is moving in a path of reform that will allow the Indian economy to perform on a strong footing in future. We think that the prospects for the Indian economy are very good.
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oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.