Concluding Remarks by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF at the Regional Conference held in Amman, Jordanon May 12, 2014

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These ideas show concrete ways of moving forward:
Macroeconomic policies a strong and shared vision is needed to guide the economic future.

Improve the composition of government spending to achieve more fairness, more efficiency, and ultimately more inclusive growth, boost public investment.

Building strong and targeted safety nets and for phasing out expensive and inefficient generalized subsidies.

Full speech: http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2014/051214.htm