IMF Greece Mission Head Thomsen Says Nation Needs to Speed up Reforms Pace

Bloomberg
May 18, 2011

Greece needs to quickly step up the pace of reforms to its economy if the EU-led program isn’t to run off track, Poul Thomsen, head of the IMF’s Greek mission, said.

“The Greek program has largely achieved what it set out to do,” Thomsen said at a conference in Athens today. “It won’t remain on track without reinvigoration of structural reforms. Without this it will run off track.”

Thomsen said he expected the economy would shrink about 1 percent more than expected this year and that an acceleration of structural reform in the public sector, among others, was needed to keep the deficit down.

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