En qué quedó todo? Cuál es la inflación?

Transcript of a Press Briefing by Caroline Atkinson, Director, External Relations Department
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, December 16, 2010

MS. ATKINSON: I have a question online from Argentina: What do you think about the technical mission? There’s been an IMF technical mission in Argentina to discuss a new consumer price index. Was it useful and what’s next? And what was the opinion of the private economist that they met? And do I think that we were able to erase distrust of the public numbers?

Well, we had a very useful mission in the field. It was the first of what we envisage as several. There may be a couple more missions to Argentina on this topic between now and the spring. And the authorities have asked, in a welcome step, have asked for our support in developing a new national consumer price index that they would like to be a strong and credible consumer price index going forward. (Blah, blah, blah)


Transcript of a Press Briefing by David Hawley, Senior Advisor, External Relations Department, International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C., Thursday, January 20, 2011

Questioner: I have a question on the mission that went to Argentina with regard to the CPI.
Caroline Atkinson said last time that there will be another mission going at the end of the month. So, I wanted to ask you if we can say that next week or this week, we are going to have a new mission. And the second question is if it’s going to be integrated in the same way, I mean, are the same people going?, Or are there new people going to be added to the mission?

MR. HAWLEY: I don’t have dates for the follow-up mission in connection with the TA mission that took place in December. We will follow-up with Media Relations to see if we can establish dates for you and mission membership. (Blah, blah, blah)

Questioner: Okay, but even if we don’t have dates, can we say that the same people are going to go and they could be expected, say, at the end of the month?—

MR. HAWLEY: As I say, I’ll get what information I can later for you on dates for that mission. I understand you want to tie me down for dates. I don’t have them at the moment. We’ll see what we can do for you. Let me say that we remain on the timetable of presenting final conclusions and recommendations to the Argentine authorities at some time in April. (Blah, blah, blah)

Questioner: April is the deadline in a way —

MR. HAWLEY: That’s the goal for presenting final conclusions, yes. (Blah, blah, blah)

Questioner: If those conclusions are not adopted by the Argentinean Government, are there any sanctions or will we come back to the Article VIII, as it was planned before the mission went, before the Argentinean Government asked the mission to go? —

MR. HAWLEY: I think it’s way premature to anticipate the recommendations and, of course, to anticipate the response of the authorities. (Blah, blah, blah)