Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Rodrigo Rato

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish politician Rodrigo Rato.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Rodrigo Rato

Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo is a conservative Spanish politician and banker who served in the government of Spain as Minister of Economy and as a vice president from 1996 to 2004. He was managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2004 to 2007 and president of Bankia between 2010 and 2012.

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth. — © Rodrigo Rato
There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.
We also need a fund that can say 'no'.
And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.
We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.
Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.
We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.
We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.
Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.
So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.
And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.
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