54 Quotes by Rodrigo Rato

It is likely that higher prices are going to last and that ... we have to adjust to a situation that is going to last.

Our intent is to make the fund more focused on the key priorities of this effort by making our advice to individual members and the whole international community more effective.

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

Those arrears have been cleared but also there are issues right now regarding the consistency of data and we are working on that.

Those are the three main elements in which we're working with Iraqi authorities,

We are really engaged in the future of Zimbabwe and we have been advising the authorities of Zimbabwe to change their course, both in macroeconomic terms and also in the respect of plurality and human rights and governance.

We are convinced that unambiguous signs of economic recovery...are already appearing.

The prospect of the fund declining to provide financial support would strengthen the incentives to implement sound policies, thus avoiding the need for fund support in the first place.

The problem is that good economic performance rests on a shaky foundation, because of large and continuing global imbalances.