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IMF Opens Central American Technical Assistance Center
The IMF, building on a successful model for transferring economic skills and best practices, opened a new technical assistance center in Central America on June 24, the seventh set up by the Fund around the world to train central bankers, economic officials, and others.
The IMF now serves a total of 94 countries through all the technical assistance centers and plans to open three additional centers in Central Asia, and Southern and Western Africa. “The Fund’s regional capacity building initiative was launched in 1992, and today we are inaugurating the seventh Regional Technical assistance Center here in Guatemala,” said IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato, who presided over the inauguration ceremony in Guatemala City.
The Central America, Panama, Dominican Republic Technical Assistance Center (CAPTAC-DR) is the Fund’s second in the Western Hemisphere after the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center, which has been operating since 2001 on the island of Barbados.
The IMF now serves a total of 94 countries through all the technical assistance centers and plans to open three additional centers in Central Asia, and Southern and Western Africa. “The Fund’s regional capacity building initiative was launched in 1992, and today we are inaugurating the seventh Regional Technical assistance Center here in Guatemala,” said IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato, who presided over the inauguration ceremony in Guatemala City.
The Central America, Panama, Dominican Republic Technical Assistance Center (CAPTAC-DR) is the Fund’s second in the Western Hemisphere after the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center, which has been operating since 2001 on the island of Barbados.