Governor of Central Bank of Iran to attend IMF spring meeting

Tehran, April 14, IRNA – Governor of Central Bank of Iran Valiollah Seif will attend Spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in the United States while Minister of Economy Ali Tayyebnia has excluded the visit from his agenda. The WMF-WB meeting 2015 will be held in Washington in mid-April with the participation of the world economy ministers and central bank governors. Seif will visit Washington heading a Central Bank delegation. Although, Iran's minister of economy is usually among participants of the IMF-WB meetings, Tayyebnia has decided to exclude this year's visit from his annual schedule, reports by the Ministry's Public Relations said. The IMF-WB spring and autumn meeting is to be held in April 17-19 and October 9-11, 2015 repectively. The agenda of the IMF-WB Spring meeting includes a spectrum of issues, such as diversification of economies that are based on natural resources, provision of homes for low income groups around the globe, the role played by subsidies in world economies, and membership of developing countries in international development funds.