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Article: Indonesia can be better off without IMF: economist
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 27, 2003
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Indonesia can be better off without IMF: economist
JAKARTA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's economy would expand
stronger and the growth would even return to pre-crisis levels of
around 7 percent by 2005 once the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
gets its hands off Indonesia, an economist said.
Rizal Ramli, former Indonesian coordinating economic minister who
leads the coalition of 35 economists calling for the discontinuance
of IMF, called the government to stop taking assistance from the IMF
soon.
"The sooner Indonesia parts with the IMF the better for the
economy, because without the IMF means we have the flexibility to do
a lot of things," he was quoted by The Jakarta Post newspaper ...