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IMF and Pakistan signed $6 bn bailout in 2019, which was topped up with $1.1 billion final yr.
Pakistan:
Pakistan has sought assist from Washington to unlock a stalled Worldwide Financial Fund programme that may launch $1.1 billion to its strained economic system because the nation rebuilds after final yr’s devastating floods, Daybreak newspaper stated on Thursday.
The IMF and Pakistan signed a $6 billion bailout in 2019, which was topped up with one other $1.1 billion final yr, however that got here with circumstances hooked up, aimed toward decreasing the finances deficit earlier than the mortgage is launched.
With rates of interest already at 17 per cent, inflation hitting 24.5% in December, and international reserves barely enough to cowl three weeks of imports, the South Asian nation is in dire want of exterior financing.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar met a visiting US Treasury delegation on Wednesday. He instructed them that Pakistan would honour its worldwide commitments and was within the strategy of taking “very robust choices” reminiscent of rising pure gasoline and electrical energy costs, Daybreak reported, citing sources.
“Nonetheless, he identified, Pakistan required respiratory area because the trade and agriculture had handed by most difficult instances after the devastating floods,” the report within the Pakistani English-language newspaper stated.
The finance ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Final yr’s extreme floods submerged swathes of the nation, killed a minimum of 1,700 folks, and battered its already strained economic system.
Rebuilding prices had been estimated at $16.three billion and worldwide donors this month pledged to finance greater than half of that.
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