Bolivia nears $2.8bn IMF deal
Minister says country ‘days away’ from agreement on funding to strengthen central bank reserves
Bolivia is close to announcing a financing deal with the International Monetary Fund, according to the country’s finance minister.
On July 22, Gabriel Espinoza said in a radio interview that Bolivia and the IMF were “days away” from formally announcing a deal of between $2.5 billion and $2.8 billion, according to reporting from Bolivian newspaper El Deber.
The figures cited by the finance minister are below the $3.3 billion Bolivia had been seeking to address a dollar liquidity crunch, according
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