{"id":87703,"date":"2025-10-19T06:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87703\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:55:27","slug":"imf-chief-says-canada-has-fiscal-room-to-boost-capital-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87703\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF Chief Says Canada Has Fiscal Room to Boost Capital Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/13347Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">International Monetary Fund<\/a> says Canada has the fiscal room to make productivity-boosting investments, and praised the federal government\u2019s proposed changes to budget timing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cBoth Germany and Canada recognize that in this very testing time, they need to use their fiscal space,\u201d Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said at a news conference during the IMF\u2019s meetings in Washington, DC, on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of the International Monetary Fund says Canada has the fiscal room to make productivity-boosting investments, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,275,52767,19983,1951,219,1223,266,27464,1224,65545,220,111,139,69,202,15758],"class_list":["post-87703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-capital-spending","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-italy","tag-kristalina-ivanova-georgieva","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-seven","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}