Tag: Wb
WB VP assures Shahbaz support in overcoming power crisis
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the provincial government is working on alternate energy sources besides construction of solar energy park in...
WB country head meets Shahbaz
Country Head of World Bank in Pakistan Rashid Bin Masood called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Friday. Matters of mutual...
World Bank wants a healthy Punjab
The World Bank (WB) on Monday approved an assistance package of US $ 100 million for the Punjab Health Sector Reform Project’s implementation. It...
Growth in Europe and Central Asia continues slowly, unevenly: WB
Most economies in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region grew in 2012, with an average growth rate of 2.5 percent, and are expected...
WB allows $840 million for Tarbela extension project
The World Bank (WB) has agreed to provide $840 million for the Tarbela Dam extension project after the Ministry of Water and Power accepted...
South Asia regaining economic momentum but faces risks: World Bank
South Asia is regaining its economic momentum, but the recovery in the world’s region with the largest number of poor people could falter in...
Pakistan to negotiate critical bailout package with IMF, WB
A high-level team of the country’s economic managers will leave for Washington on April 18 to hold talks with the IMF and the World...
WB ready to work with new BRICS bank
The World Bank said Tuesday it was ready to support the new development bank being established by the BRICS emerging economic powers, predicting it...
WB gives Pakistan a high five
The World Bank and Pakistan have signed on Thursday, agreements of five projects for a total amount of US$ 1.125 billion, out of which...
Slow progress causes WB to close 3 projects worth $650m in...
The World Bank (WB) has closed three projects worth $650 million for Pakistan due to slow progress on the projects, sources said on Friday.
However,...
Illegal logging can be curbed by criminal justice system: WB
Every two seconds, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers around the globe. A new World...
WB to provide $ 5.5b to Pakistan in 3 years
The World Bank will extend an assistance of upto $5.5 billion over FY 12-14 to support Pakistan’s poverty reduction and development agenda.
According to Bank’s...
WB links Pak economic growth with water, electricity availability
The World Bank has linked the economic growth and development of Pakistan with the availability of water and electricity and underlined the need of...
Power and jobs
The obvious relation
Two billion dollars. That is the figure the World Bank puts on our annual power sector deficit. In its recently published report...
Political apathy hampers WB tax programme
Lack of political commitment proved to be one of the major factors affecting implementation on the World Bank (WB) funded Tax Administration Reform Project...
Punjab govt named in WB’s prison aid scam
A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court against misuse of World Bank’s Rs 500 million aid given to the Punjab government...
Sindhu Bachao Tarla protest against WB
While observing a hunger strike, scores of Sindhu Bachao Tarla (Save Sindh Appeal) activists submitted a memorandum to the World Bank representatives here on...
