article_snippet.sent: Vitor Gaspar, director of fiscal affairs at the IMF, said it was crucial for all countries to get all countries public finances under control.
article_snippet.sent: Vitor Gaspar, director of fiscal affairs at the IMF said governments ‘should build buffers in good times’ – echoing Mr Osborne’s pledge to ‘fix the roof while the sun is shining’.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking at the launch of the Fiscal Monitor in Washington, Vitor Gaspar, director of fiscal affairs at the IMF said: ‘Countries that fail to build buffers in good times often find Countries that fail to build buffers in good times without fiscal space to manage a crisis and that is very costly.