Economy & Business - September 2011 (ISSN 1741-7430)

The economy should grow by about 4% this year and inflation will come in towards (or perhaps just over) the top end of the government target o a rate between 8.5% and 9.5%. The target was agreed with the IMF which visited Nicaragua at the beginning of September for its latest, and final, monitoring meetings for existing standby agreement.  The final disbursement from the IMF is worth US$16m.