Global economic recovery next year - IMF Chief
TAJIKISTAN: The global economy should begin seeing signs of recovery
by next year, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said
Wednesday during a visit to the Central Asian state of Tajikistan.
The fund chief said that while 2009 was likely to continue to bring
difficulties, negative global financial trends should begin to reverse
by 2010.
"We... expect that the rate of growth in the global economy will
begin to recover in 2010, and with the rate of growth recovering in the
world economy, so too will it grow in your country," he told reporters
through a translator.
Strauss-Kahn made the comments to reporters after meeting with Tajik
president Emomali Rakhmon as part of an ongoing tour of Central Asian
states, many of which have been badly affected by the global financial
downturn.
Tajikistan - a mountainous former Soviet republic that borders China
and Afghanistan - has struggled to provide even basic services for its
citizens in recent years, with blackouts the norm throughout much of
last winter. DUSHANBE, Wednesday, AFP
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