Give me a chance to respond albeit briefly. As we are dining here tonight, the IMF team working on Malawi’s request for a new Fund- supported economic recovery program, and Malawi’s Executive Board member in the Fund, are putting together a BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  strong case that Malawi deserves to be supported in its recovery program.
I can envisage the way the case will be laid out. Let me try to put the argument before the IMF Board: In sharp contrast to the political impasse to effectively deal with the country’s problems under the Bingu regime, indeed departing sharply from the country’s history of stop-go policies, the new government of H.E.