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IMF says economy is starting to recover, which also carries the risk of reforms being dropped

Autor: Mihaela Claudia Medrega

28.04.2011, 23:54 61

IMF says the Romanian economy is starting to rebound, exportscontinue to increase and consumer and investor confidence, althoughlow, is showing signs of recovery, yet warns that there is a riskthat the Government might drop certain reforms because the economyis picking up.

"Many analysts expect Romania's economy to grow faster thanthe region's on medium term. We cannot relax reforms in Romania.The markets are now seeing Romania doing what it is supposed todo," believe the IMF officials, according to sources close to thetalks between the officials in Washington and the Romanianauthorities.

IMF experts are considering revising forecasts aboutmacroeconomic indicators, but there will not be any radicalchanges.

The base scenario has IMF estimating a 1.5% economic growth thisyear. However, the Romanian authorities and the Fund did not ruleout the continuation of recession this year, too, forecasting a0.5% decline in 2011 in a worst-case scenario. It remains to beseen how much the economic growth forecast will be changed andwhether the recession scenario will be considered or not.

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