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Saturday, September 26, 1998

FM to take up IMF conditionalities

ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU  
NEW DELHI, Sept 25: India will raise the issue of IMF conditionalities at the Fund-Bank annual meeting and press for a consensus on managing short-term loans, the unrestricted movement of which has played havoc with the financial system of several countries in East Asia and Latin America.

"We will raise the issue of IMF conditionalities. It is our view there is no universal or uniform solution," Sinha who heads the Indian delegation Fund-Bank meeting at Washington early next month told reporters here.

Sinha said he did not foresee an east Asian or Latin American type crisis and said, "we have enough strength to meet any situation. Besides the country's economic fundamentals are strong, he added.

When pointed out that India had $9.1 billion worth foreign institutional investment, Sinha said nowhere in the world the crisis was caused by institutional investors.

No country would feel safe if short term loans were taken for repaying long term loans as was done in East Asia, he said adding excessive shortterm loans were also taken for trade related payments by these countries.

India's short term loans were a mere 5.6 per cent of GDP and hence such a situation is not expected to arise.

This went to show full convertibility of the currency was not the only factor responsible for the East Asian currency meltdown, he said.

On the question of full convertibility of rupee, he said it was not true to say India was going slow on it because of the East asian crisis.

The Tarapore Committee which has recommended a three year time frame for full rupee float had wanted government to fulfill certain preconditions before taking the step.

"We have to strengthen fundamentals to fulfil these and once that happens rupee would be made fully convertible," he said but added that government had not accepted the three year time frame recommended by the Tarapore Committee.

Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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