IMF releases 838.8 mil. euros for Portugal finance program

The newest release in its three-year, 27.51-billion-euro aid program for Portugal came four days after International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said the country is “on the right track” in meeting economic reform targets set by its international creditors in exchange for rescue funding.

Total disbursements under IMF loan plan launched in May 2011 have now reached about 22.16 billion euros.

In an interview broadcast Saturday, Lagarde told the Portuguese weekly Expresso: “The program is on the right track. A significant part of fiscal adjustment has been carried out.”

“The Portuguese authorities and people of Portugal have been extremely courageous and firm in carrying out tough and painful reforms,” she said.

The deep austerity demanded by the program has thrown the country into recession and sent unemployment soaring to a record 16 percent.

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