International Monetary Fond
Mandate:
Is a multilateral agency which promotes international monetary cooperation and exchange rate stability, and provides temporary financial assistance to countries to ease balance of payments adjustment.
In the country since: 1994
At a glance:
Aims toward providing a framework for macroeconomic polices and related structural reforms during the transition to a market economy.
Through these financial arrangements, supplies an important signal on the quality of the authorities financial program, which can act as a catalyst for additional assistance from the international community.
Has offered advice and assistance focused, inter alia, on establishing and retaining macroeconomic stabilization, reducing large current account and fiscal imbalances, addressing vulnerability to domestic and external shocks, generating growth and employment, and implementing structural reforms.
Has provided a number of important technical assistance missions to the country in the area of public expenditure management, tax collection and tax policy, debt management, decentralization, statistics, monetary policy implementation, and the functioning of foreign exchange and capital markets.
In concert with other members of the international community, is working to develop the institutional capacity to allow the country to progress toward its main goal of full European integration. Contact
IMF office
Tel: +389 2 3121 041
Fax: +389 2 3121 048
Kompleks Banki b.b.
1000 Skopje
