{"id":23770,"date":"2024-01-28T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=23770"},"modified":"2024-01-28T16:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T11:13:57","slug":"imf-urges-pakistan-to-expand-social-support-beyond-bisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/imf-urges-pakistan-to-expand-social-support-beyond-bisp\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF urges Pakistan to expand social support beyond BISP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Home\">International Monetary Fund<\/a> (IMF) has urged Pakistan to introduce other social support mechanisms along with the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP).<\/p>\n<p>The IMF in a statement said that Pakistan should take more steps for extending social protection to the weaker classes. \u201cPakistan should take consistent efforts to run the social assistance programme,\u201d IMF stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protected electricity and gas tariff slabs should remain continue,\u201d the monetary fund advised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn current fiscal year the targets of health and education expenditures were achieved in September, but the caretaker government could not attain the December target owing to limited capability,\u201d IMF stated.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-receives-700mn-from-imf.html\">Pakistan receives $700mn from IMF<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The lender has urged the next elected government to continue social security expenditures till the end of the ongoing financial year.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF lauded the BISP for its best mechanism to extend prompt support adding that the program still has capacity for further improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Pakistan to introduce other social support mechanisms along with the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP). The IMF in a statement said that Pakistan should take more steps for extending social protection to the weaker classes. \u201cPakistan should take consistent efforts to run the social assistance programme,\u201d IMF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[10810,160,11051],"class_list":["post-23770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","tag-benazir-income-support-programme","tag-imf","tag-imf-asks-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}