Africa-Press – Angola. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, which has been in Angola since November, will meet on Monday with Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa.
Work meetings are also planned with other ministerial departments, with emphasis on Public Works and Spatial Planning, Trade and Industry and Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas.
The agenda, according to a press release, also includes meetings with the private sector, multilateral development partners, the Ministry of Economy and Planning and the National Bank of Angola.
The joint mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is carrying out a monitoring day, within the scope of the Post-Financing Program on the regular surveillance framed in Article IV of the Founding Agreement of the Fund, under the leadership of Amadou N-R. Sy, the new mission chief.
In October, a delegation headed by the Minister of Finance, Vera Daves de Sousa, took part, in Washington, in the annual meetings of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The event brought together the main players in the international economy and finance, for the analysis of current and relevant issues. These were the first fully face-to-face meetings since the Covid-19 outbreak.
In a press interview in Washington, after meetings with representatives of the World Bank, the Minister of Finance stated that the mobilization of financial resources for the country was one of the main topics on the agenda of the meetings with the Bretton Woods Institutions.
“We shared with the World Bank group what our main needs are in the field of infrastructure, in the field of support to the private sector, in the field of technical assistance and we hope that both the World Bank group and the African Development Bank the other institutions with whom we are going to meet support us in the materialization of the set of projects and programs that we are preparing”.
For the minister, the beginning would be the preparation of the National Development Plan for the period from 2023 to 2027 and the Executive requested “support to the level of knowledge and ideas to multilateral partners so that these strategies are aligned with the PDN”.
Angola has been a member of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund since 1989 and, in recent years, has been strengthening its relationship with these institutions, through specific programs, with a view to improving the management and consolidation of national accounts, perfecting mechanisms investment and the promotion of economic and social growth in the country.
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