There is a huge deficit in the balance of payments and inflationary problems and in the long term this means that we should establish a monetary and fiscal policy that is more conservative, he suggested.
We have to reduce the liquidity in the economy. There will probably be a drop in credit being offered to the various sectors and an increase in the interest rates but at the same time we should be revising the fiscal policy.

Source: latribuna.hn

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