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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister and spokesman of the provincial government Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said the government would take soft loan from the World...

The global economy is unlikely to fall back into recession but there are risks, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday. "I don't...

Recent gains in the Chinese yuan have helped curb price rises in the country, but it's too early to conclude that Beijing has won...

Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance and the World Bank (WB) signed a $22 million grant from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) for the...

“The productivity of the business and industrial sector is very low in Pakistan compared with that of India and Bangladesh. Therefore, World Bank (WB)...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said she was “not pursuing” the top job at the World Bank after a media report...

Country Director World Bank Racheed bin Masud lauded the efforts of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) here at the BISP Secretariat on Tuesday....

Pakistan has registered a case against India for constructing Kishanganga Dam in the World Bank’s arbitration court, reported a private TV channel. Pakistan raised...

WASHINGTON - Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh is expected to highlight Pakistan's progress towards economic reforms, export trajectory, growth prospects and the importance of international partnership in the country's development in a series of talks at annual World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings.
The finance minister will lead a team of Pakistan's top economic managers at spring meetings that bring together leaders of the world finance and heads

LAHORE - A team of World Bank (WB) economic experts has visited NetSol Technologies to prepare a case study on the organisation's notable success story. Former Finance Minister and World Bank Vice President Shahid Javed Burki led the team which included Senior Economist for South Asia Region Eric D Manes, and Lead Economist for Morocco and Algeria Jose R Lopez-Calix. The purpose of this visit was to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Pakistan's IT industry and to

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI - The World Bank has approved an assistance of $400 million to help Pakistan improve access, quality, and relevance of education at all levels.
A news release issued by the bank said $300 million equivalent credit for the tertiary education support project would finance the government's tertiary education development programme, and would leverage an estimated investment of approximately $1.7 billion in additional resources from the government.
The Punjab

KARACHI - With the assistance of a $200-million loan from the World Bank (WB), the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) intends to implement WB's Natural Gas Efficiency Project for the purpose of reducing unaccounted-for gas (UFG) [gas loss through leakage and other reasons].
Under this project, the SSGC would replace approximately 5,750km of distribution pipeline - excluding the main supply line - during the next five years along with overhead and underground leak survey, and

BEIJING - The World Bank has issued its first yuan-denominated bond in a move that will help China as it tries to increase the use of its currency in global markets.
The Washington-based lender said on Tuesday that it would raise 500 million yuan from the two-year bond issued on Hong Kong's yuan-denominated bond market.
The move will "further deepen the market and permit investors to diversify their currency holdings and expand renminbi exposure", the World Bank said in a

LAHORE: A World Bank delegation, led by Country Director Rachid Benmessaoud, called on Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Friday and discussed with him implementation of various ongoing WB programmes as well as cooperation in several sectors.
Provincial Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Chief Secretary Nasir Khosa, Planning & Development chairman and secretaries of housing, finance, agriculture, health, irrigation and communication and works

ISLAMABAD
Pakistan has asked the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide $3 billion in additional financing instead of diverting the funding by reprioritising the existing projects for the country, State Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference, the minister said that project loans already approved by both institutions were in the pipeline and their reprioritisation could affect the