Agência Brasil
Brasília – The deputy director of the International Monetary Fund for the Western Hemisphere, Charles Collyns, and other officials of the fund are in Brazil for the first revision of the preventive US$14.8 billion agreement signed at the end of last year. Yesterday the mission met with the head of the National Treasury, Joaquim Levy, minister of Finance, Antonio Palocci, and the president of the Central Bank, Henrique Meirelles.
Following the meetings, Collyns declared,"The first impression is that the Brazilian economy is doing very well."

