IMF Chief Says External Funding Will Boost Ukraine's Financial Stability
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IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has said that greater external funding is needed to help maintain financial stability in war-torn Ukraine
International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has said that greater external funding, especially fast disbursing grants, are needed to help maintain macroeconomic and financial stability in war-torn Ukraine.
Ms Georgieva in her opening remarks during the Ukraine Roundtable where the country's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal was also present as part of the IMF and World Bank's Spring Meetings, further said that "without additional support, the great efforts made by the Ukrainian authorities to maintain macroeconomic and financial stability—in the face of enormous shocks and terrible circumstances — will become even harder to sustain".
She emphasised on the importance of external finance in supporting Ukraine, including from bilateral donors and the multilateral institutions like the World Bank.
"It is financing like this, together with careful controls on cross-border operations since February 24, that has kept the central bank's foreign exchange reserves stable relative to the pre-war level. On the fiscal side, it has supplemented domestic revenues without excessive recourse to monetary financing," she said.
