Ecuador to Use China Loan to Help Finance its Budget
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Ecuador, home to South America’s third-largest oil reserves, will finance its 2013 budget deficit with a $2 billion loan from China, Finance Minister Patricio Rivera said today.
The government will use the loan to help cover financing needs of $6 billion next year, Rivera said today in a joint news conference with President Rafael Correa in Quito.