A new entourage of the IMF arrives in the country for the fourth assessment of the economy

This Wednesday will arrive in Argentina a new entourage of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to review the country 's public accounts and meet with various representatives of the government, the central bank, businessmen and opposition sectors.

As confirmed by an IMF spokesman TN.com.ar, the team led by economist Roberto Cardarelli will arrive in Buenos Aires as part of the fourth revision of the economic plan who supports the 36-month confirmation agreement.

"During the mission, they will meet with representatives of the government and the BCRA, as well as representatives of the private sector, academia and civil society," said Alejandro Werner, director of the IMF 's IMF Department. Western hemisphere, as he has already done. on other occasions, "he told the media.

The Italian economist Cardarelli, head of the government's public accounts audit body, has already made three visits with his team to the country. During these visits, they must prepare a "follow-up report", which is sent to the executive board to approve or reject a new disbursement.

The last money transfer arrived in Argentina in early April and amounted to 10,835 million US dollars, deposited in the coffers of the Central Bank. Reserves thus reached this week the record figure of 77 478 million US dollars.

As planned by the government, the IMF will send, after a quarterly badessment of compliance with the terms of the program, about US $ 5.4 billion in June and September and a new disbursement of US $ 973 million in December.

This last figure will be reproduced in the four projects planned for next year and in the two projects of 2021, which will be the last. The repayment schedule will imply that between 2022 and 2023, the government will have to return $ 33 billion to the agency, a figure that badysts consider high and that could be renegotiated in the coming months, so that the payment period is more lax.