Over 10 million Pakistanis may fall below poverty line: World Bank
The WB report also highlighted that Pakistan is expected to miss its primary budget target as well, which would keep Islamabad in deficit for at least three more years.
The WB report also highlighted that Pakistan is expected to miss its primary budget target as well, which would keep Islamabad in deficit for at least three more years.
Fatalities in road accidents reduced by 17 per cent in five years.
The Minister said that the logistics sector will be a cornerstone in our endeavour to take India to a 10 fold growth from a USD 3.5 trillion to USD 35 trillion by 2047.
October is the month for the Annual Meetings of the World Bank/IMF, held this year in Marrakesh in Morocco. It is also the time when key reports on global economic and financial health are published.
"But the good news basically ends there,” Indermit Gill, World Bank chief economist, said on Wednesday.
The controversial statement also aims to belittle Bangladesh’s electoral practices as the world at large might be led to think that elections in Bangladesh are not fair.
By ignoring long-standing issues in the pursuit of growth, suddenly the country is back to the era of rolling power cuts, with the taka and the forex reserves under pressure.
“Until an adequate macroeconomic policy framework is in place, the World Bank does not plan to offer new financing to Sri Lanka,” the global lender said in a statement.
The bank promptly identified King as the source of the information, put him on administrative leave for two years, before firing him on Christmas Eve in 2010.
Surging world food prices, which reached their highest levels on record this year, are contributing to the rapid rise in LIC inflation.
