The FINANCIAL -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Reserve Bank of India have signed an agreement under which the Reserve Bank of India would purchase up to US$10 billion in IMF notes.

The note purchase agreement follows the endorsement by the Executive Board on July 1, 2009 of the framework for issuing notes to the official sector. The Indian authorities had already expressed their intention to invest in IMF notes.

According to IMF, the agreement offers India a safe investment instrument at the same time as boosting the Fund’s capacity to help its members to weather the global financial crisis, and to facilitate an early recovery from the worldwide economic crisis.

The Fund can now add these resources to those already available through agreements signed with other members, which contribute toward an increase in Fund resources that was requested in April 2009 by G-20 leaders and the International Monetary and Financial Committee.

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