The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will disburse as much as US$400 million over the next three to four months. According to Moises Pineda, the local IDB representative, these funds are destined to strengthen the financial sector and to assist with social programs and will become available now that some of the issues identified by the IMF agreements have been resolved. According to Pineda, this month will see a US$100-million disbursement as the result of successful talks between local authorities and delegates from the IMF, the World Bank and the IDB. Pineda says the chief reason for the delay was the purchase of the electrical distributors. As reported by the Listin Diario, the principle condition required by the IDB was maintenance of macro-economic stability. Pineda also said that by December there would be another US$100-million disbursal, which should complete the US$200-million amount that IDB president Enrique Iglesias referred to last week in Panama. Another US$200 million is expected to be injected into the Dominican economy in January.