{"id":28004,"date":"2025-04-26T02:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=28004"},"modified":"2025-04-26T02:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:33:32","slug":"finance-minister-meets-ifc-managing-director-appreciates-support-for-key-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=28004","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister meets IFC Managing Director; appreciates support for key projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250426-WA0028-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250426-WA0028-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250426-WA0028-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250426-WA0028-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250426-WA0028.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington DC : Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb met with Mr. Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and his team on the sidelines of the IMF\u2013World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance Minister thanked Mr. Diop for his visit to Pakistan in March 2025. He briefed the delegation on the strong macroeconomic indicators of the country and the recent sovereign credit rating upgrade by Fitch, terming it an external validation of the government\u2019s successful reform initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister appreciated IFC\u2019s support for the Reko Diq project and urged the Corporation to expedite its advisory work on the Karachi airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He agreed with the IFC Managing Director on the need to focus more on subnational governments and build their capacities for enhanced development impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC : Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb met with Mr. Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and his team on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[2383,1965],"class_list":["post-28004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-stories","tag-federal-minister-for-finance-pakistan","tag-international-finance-corporation-ifc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28006,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28004\/revisions\/28006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}