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Against a backdrop of a healthy and expanding global economy, with the lowest inflation in more than thirty years and cautious optimism blanketing global equity markets, finance ministers and central bank governors of advanced and developing countries met in Washington on April 28. The Interim Committee (of the Board of Governors of the IMF), under the chairmanship of Belgium’s Philippe Maystadt, welcomed the prospects for further expansion of world output and trade, the result of sound macroeconomic policies and vigorous structural reforms in many countries. In his opening press conference on April 25, IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus remarked that global economic prospects warranted “rational exuberance.”
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