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IMF Tracker - Will upcoming elections pose a risk to the IMF programme?
Published: Wednesday | December 17, 2014 0 Comments
Co-chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee, Richard Byles.
McPherse Thompson, Assistant Editor - Business
Members of the Economic Programme Oversight Com-mittee (EPOC) will be closely watching the Government in the run up to the general election, constitutionally due in 2016, to ensure it does not deviate from commitments under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme.
"The country expects EPOC to keep a very keen eye out that we do not do anything that is going to have a negative effect on the economic programme," co-chairman Richard Byles said.
"The fact that elections are coming is not relevant to us doing the right thing, making the correct decisions to keep the economy on the path that it is on," he said, adding that "next year and the year after is the real test of EPOC".
