Turkey’s finance minister held the worst IMF-World Bank meeting ever
Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak held a closed-door meeting with hundreds of investors during the IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington last week, and some who attended called it the worst they’ve ever had with a high-ranking government official.
The Turkish lira stumbled on Friday after the country’s finance minister struggled to impress investors with his new economic reform programme on a visit to Washington. Fund managers and analysts crammed into a ballroom at the Park Hyatt hotel on
Turkey's unemployment rate hit its highest level since 2009 in January as the recession triggered by last year's currency crisis took its toll https://t.co/dwin00DkQw
— Laura Pitel (@laurapitel) April 15, 2019
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