ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday received $400 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), as part of its five-year $1.2 billion programme for energy sector reforms.
The Asian Development Bank had, on April 24 2014, approved the loan worth of $400 million for Pakistan and an agreement to this effect was signed on April 28 at the Finance Ministry.
The loan is part of an assistance program which will underwrite reforms needed to make the energy sector affordable, reliable, sustainable and secure. The move is expected to accelerate industrial activity needed to boost economic growth and help create jobs.
DPC agreements signed with World Bank
Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Jalil Abbas Jilani on Saturday signed two Developmental Policy Credit Agreements on behalf of the Government of Pakistan at the World Bank today.
Philippe H. Le Houerou, Vice President of the World Bank Group’s South Asia Region signed the Agreements on behalf of the World Bank.
The Policy Credit Agreements include: (i) Pakistan First Power Sector Developmental Policy Credit amounting to US $ 600 million; and (ii) Fiscally Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Developmental Policy Credit worth US $ 400 million.
The financing is meant to help reform Pakistan’s power system, making it more efficient and consumer oriented.
Meanwhile, the Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Developmental Policy financing seeks to support the government’s efforts to promote private and financial sector development, expand social protection for the poor through enhanced revenue mobilization.
The World Bank had also approved a Country Partnership Strategy for Pakistan for the period 2015-19 with a total outlay of $11 billion and allocation of $ 125 million by the IFC for setting up a Three Gorges subsidiary in Pakistan to finance energy related projects.
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Why and where is all the money going??? No more local political compromises. WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING??? WHY DOESN'T PMLN COLLECT TAXES FROM POLITICIANS, AGRICULTURE, BUSINESSES, INDUSTRIALISTS, DEFAULTERS, AND EVADERS??? We are seeing nothing but paindoos coming into power by the virtues of our faulty Constitution. They come big-mouthing us, take loans, and leave laughing at us. The Pakistani politicians do nothing but take loans, aid, and bow down before the West. This is not fiction but a historical FACT. Salams
Really American have the biggest heart in the world because 95% Pakistanis are against America and still they get the money from them.
I$haq Dar is working overtime securing loans. In 4 years, he will walk away with his commissions leaving the country under obscene amount of debt.
PMLN strategy: let's rig the elections and then let's run the government by borrowing one loan after another.