ZAGREB, March 19 (Hina) - Croatia's stabilisation programme has been successful in recent years, but the conduct of the structural changes is a precondition for the future economic growth, said the World Bank's director for Croatia
and Albania, Arntraud Hartmann, in Zagreb on Friday. After her meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa, Ms. Hartmann said briefly that the country's stabilisation programme had been successful in the recent years. During her three-day visit to Croatia, the World Bank's official and her Croatian hosts discussed the current cooperation being carried out through 14 projects and future programmes which will be implemented by the Bank and Croatia in the next three years. Hartmann added that it was necessary to carry out structural changes in order to ensure the economic growth. Matesa explained it referred to the transformation and completion of reforms of the pe
ZAGREB, March 19 (Hina) - Croatia's stabilisation programme has
been successful in recent years, but the conduct of the structural
changes is a precondition for the future economic growth, said the
World Bank's director for Croatia and Albania, Arntraud Hartmann,
in Zagreb on Friday.
After her meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa, Ms.
Hartmann said briefly that the country's stabilisation programme
had been successful in the recent years.
During her three-day visit to Croatia, the World Bank's official
and her Croatian hosts discussed the current cooperation being
carried out through 14 projects and future programmes which will be
implemented by the Bank and Croatia in the next three years.
Hartmann added that it was necessary to carry out structural
changes in order to ensure the economic growth.
Matesa explained it referred to the transformation and completion
of reforms of the pension and public health systems as well as to the
continuation of all processes linked with the stability of banking
systems.
We shall continue, with the assistance of the World Bank, making
these structural changes and complete them in accordance to needs
of the Croatian society, the premier added.
On Friday, Ms. Hartmann visited the Croatian National Parliament
(Sabor) where she was received by a Vice-President of Sabor,
Vladimir Seks.
They considered the current projects of the World Bank conducted in
Croatia, the credit financing of the small entrepreneurship, mine-
clearance, infrastructure and future programmes.
The World Bank endorses and hastens the privatisation of big
Croatian public companies such as, for instance, the oil industry
(INA), the power supply industry (HEP) and telecommunications.
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