{"id":45392,"date":"2025-03-28T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45392"},"modified":"2025-03-28T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:16:08","slug":"imf-reaches-agreement-with-pakistan-to-lend-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/imf-reaches-agreement-with-pakistan-to-lend-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF Reaches Agreement with Pakistan to Lend $2 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it has reached a preliminary agreement with the Pakistani government to provide two new loans totaling $2 billion. This support aims to help the country rebuild its fragile economy and strengthen its ability to adapt to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>According to an IMF statement, the agreement includes a disbursement of approximately $1 billion as the second installment of a previous $7 billion bailout package agreed upon in 2023.<br \/>\nAdditionally, the IMF has approved a new agreement under the &#8220;Resilience and Sustainability Program,&#8221; which will grant Pakistan access to an additional $1.3 billion over a period of 28 months.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported that the Karachi Stock Exchange\u2019s KSE-100 index recorded its highest gains in three weeks, closing up 0.9% on Wednesday following the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The value of Pakistan\u2019s dollar bonds also increased, with the yield on 2029 bonds reaching its highest level in over a month.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Porter, the IMF\u2019s mission chief to Pakistan, said, &#8220;Pakistan has made significant progress in restoring macroeconomic stability and building confidence despite challenging global conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it has reached a preliminary agreement with the Pakistani government to provide two new loans totaling $2 billion. This support aims to help the country rebuild its fragile economy and strengthen its ability to adapt to climate change. According to an IMF statement, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45393,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions\/45393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}