US will keep supporting Bolivia's economic efforts

The United States will keep backing Bolivia's efforts to reduce poverty and stabilise the economy after last year's popular revolt, a top US Treasury official said on Friday.
"I commended President (Carlos) Mesa and his team on their policies to support economic growth and job creation and to strengthen government finances," John Taylor, the Undersecretary for International Affairs, told reporters.
The United States and Mexico co-chair the "Bolivian Support Group," created in January and meant to help South America's poorest nation cut its fiscal deficit and improve the standard of living.
Taylor announced that Bolivia would receive $4 million from the Inter-American Development Bank for a microcredit programme.