IMF Mission Heads To Argentina

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to send a mission to Argentina to report on the country’s economic progress. The team, led by Ranjit Teja, the deputy director of the department for the western hemisphere, is due to arrive in the capital, Buenos Aires, on Monday and plans to stay around two weeks. Argentina cancelled its entire debt with the IMF – totaling $9.8 billion – in January this year. President Néstor Kirchner’s government has long been critical of the Fund’s role leading up to Argentina’s financial meltdown in 2001 and 2002.