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Article: KOREAN GOVT TO PURSUE EXPANSIONARY BUDGET, LOW INTEREST RATES.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- June 26, 2002
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SEOUL, June 26 Asia Pulse - The Korean government has decided to maintain the current macroeconomic policies of expansionary budget spending and low interest rates for the second half of the year with fine-tuning of some of the policies to flexibly tackle changing economic conditions.
At a meeting of economic ministers, presided over by President Kim Dae-jung, participants also agreed to help the country's economy grow at an optimum level with balanced exports, investments in plants and equipment and domestic spending.
They decided not to spend 2.4 trillion won (US$1.8 billion) in the surplus budget carried over but to use it to repay state debts.
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