Iran must contain liquidity growth to safeguard inflation success, IMF’s Lipton says

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Liquidity growth must be contained if Iran is to "sustain the recent success in the battle against inflation", the International Monetary Fund's first deputy managing director said today (May 17).

David Lipton told an audience at the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran the country had achieved an "important decline" in the rate of inflation, with the headline figure falling into single digits in the past few months.

Keeping liquidity growth under control will help anchor this, Lipton

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