For his part, Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Minister of Finance, disclosed that the joint meeting with the IMF Director General, is dealt with the GCC economic developments and the global economic developments. He added that they discussed diversity of the sources of GCC governments' income and the structural reforms needed to increase productivity in the GCC countries. Regarding the growth rate expected by the Monetary Fund for the Saudi economy in this year, the Minister of Finance said: "It's reasonable." --SPA 19:19 LOCAL TIME 16:19 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w