Dollar remains world?s main reserve currency, IMF
19:37, 15 June 2009
ASTANA. June 15. KAZINFORM /Serik Sabekov/- Today in the Astana?s Rixos Hotel a roundtable titled ?Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Development Outlooks? took place with participation of International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Representatives of the Finance Ministry, IMF Department for Middle East and Central Asia, IMF external relations department, Kazakhstan Parliament deputies, and representatives of the extractive industries, agriculture and business took part in the event organized by the Atameken National Economic Chamber.
«Kazakhstan?s economy is more open than that of other countries of Central Asia. As a result Kazakhstan suffers more than other countries in the conditions of the global recession», - Dominique Strauss-Kahn emphasized while addressing the meeting.
He also took interest in the roundtable participants? estimates of the crisis depth and the measures elaborated by Kazakhstan?s Government.
Strauss-Kahn also pointed out that ?even if the Euro is competing with the Dollar, the latter remains the world?s main reserve currency. Will it change in the future? Most definitely it will not, for the economy