Tag: World Bank

Belatedly though the regulators have finally woken up from a deep slumber to mitigate the decades-old problem of lack of financial access in Pakistan...

Institute of Business Administration (IBA)-Sukkur is likely to hold tests for teachers’ appointments in relation with an education reforms programme in Sindh being sponsored...

The new head of the World Bank said on Monday he was willing to let the global development lender advise troubled developed nations like...

An Agreement was signed between the Government and the World Bank for $ 200 million funding for Natural Gas Efficiency Project. The Financing/Loan Agreements were...

Pakistan has failed to achieve major policy objectives to reduce fiscal deficit at or below 3.5 percent of the GDP and improving tax-to-GDP ratio...

Jim Yong Kim’s appointment as World Bank president may have been predictable, given the long-standing tradition that renders the selection an American prerogative. But...

All departments of the Punjab government will be computerised under the IT promotion project by the end of the current fiscal year. Official sources...

The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank, over Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was overwhelmingly...

The World Bank said it has approved two projects totaling 1.09 billion US dollars in a bid to boost electricity supply and improve irrigated...

The world is at a crossroads. Either the global community will join together to fight poverty, resource depletion, and climate change, or it will...

Change of guard at the Foreign Office There will be a change of guard at the Foreign Office early next month when Jalil Abbas Jilani,...

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...

Terming corruption and weak economic governance the main constraints to growth, the World Bank said in a report on Saturday that Pakistan had failed...

The World Bank Group (WBG) will continue to support Pakistan's poverty reduction and development agenda with an expected assistance of up to 5.5 billion...

Growth in East Asian economies will slow next year with demand from key export markets in the United States and Europe falling as they...

Subsidies on electricity to the richest 20 per cent of population have been significantly reduced from nearly 40 per cent to 29 per cent...

Activists of various left-wing political parties and progressive organisations on Wednesday launched the ‘Occupy Islamabad’ movement and held a rally against the capitalist system....