Today World Bank president arrives on two-day Visit

ISLAMABAD: World Bank President Dr Jim Yong Kim will access in Pakistan on a two-day appointment today
and accommodated Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, ARY News reported.

According to World Bank statement, Mr Kim would accommodated Pakistani leaders and stakeholders to acquisition out how best to abutment authoritative the country’s bread-and-butter reforms added ambitious.

“Kim will altercate how to accomplish the a lot of of Pakistan’s beginning bread-and-butter potential, the advantages offered by a adolescent population, and the opportunities from its bounded position abreast huge markets,” it said.

Dr Kim will authority accelerated alternation with Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, who is the capital academician abaft the massive bread-and-butter reforms in several spheres.This will be the aboriginal appointment of a World Bank President to Pakistan in endure 10 years, additional in endure 18 years. This is aswell the aboriginal appointment of Dr Kim, who has been in appointment for four years now.

Previously, he had three affairs with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in accomplished two years. He met him alert in New York and already in Washington.

Mr Kim will be accompanied by Annette Dixon, Vice President for the South Asia Region of the World Bank, Dimitris Tsitsiragos, Vice President for Global Client Services of International Finance Corporation, the clandestine area arm of the World Bank Group, and Jan Walliser, World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions.

The World Bank’s programme in Pakistan is absolute by its Country Partnership Strategy agreed with the government. The World Bank Pakistan portfolio has 26 investment lending projects beneath accomplishing with a absolute net charge of $4.99 billion.