{"id":72397,"date":"2025-04-29T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72397"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:59:32","slug":"imf-board-to-meet-in-early-may-to-discuss-pakistans-loan-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/imf-board-to-meet-in-early-may-to-discuss-pakistans-loan-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF board to meet in early May to discuss Pakistan\u2019s loan programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board is set to meet on May 9 to finalise the staff-level agreement for a new $1.3 billion arrangement, the global lender said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the details, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/finance-minister-leaves-for-us-to-attend-imf-world-bank-meetings\/\">staff-level agreement<\/a> between the IMF and Pakistan was reached in March under a climate resilience loan programme, with the final approval expected in the upcoming meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the IMF said that this will be the first \u201creview under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility\u201d, along with a request for an arrangement under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>As the meeting was announced, the stock exchange saw a slight recovery of 135 points following an initial dip of 500 points.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF&#8217;s agreement includes climate financing worth $1.3 billion, as well as an additional 28-month programme, which will bring the total financial support to Pakistan to $2.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF and Pakistani authorities have also agreed on the implementation of the Resilience and Sustainability Facility to address the country\u2019s long-term challenges, including climate risks and energy sector reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board is set to meet on May 9 to finalise the staff-level agreement for a new $1.3 billion arrangement, the global lender said. According to the details, the staff-level agreement between the IMF and Pakistan was reached in March under a climate resilience loan programme, with the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1247,28283],"class_list":["post-72397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-imf-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72407,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72397\/revisions\/72407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}