Following the decision, IMF First Deputy Managing Director and Acting Chairwoman Anne Krueger commended the Croatian government for its economic programme for 2003, saying it would begin "to lay the foundation for fiscal sustainability and sustained high economic growth rates".
In urma deciziei, prim-adjunctul Directorului Executiv al FMI, in acelasi timp presedinte executiv, Anne Krueger, a felicitat guvernul croat pentru programul sau economic pe anul 2003, spunand ca guvernul "va aseza fundatiile consolidarii fiscale si ale unei cresteri economice stabile si rapide".