{"id":643,"date":"2020-03-26T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intv.pk\/world-bank-imf-call-for-suspending-debt-payment-by-developing-countries\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:48:04","slug":"world-bank-imf-call-for-suspending-debt-payment-by-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"World Bank, IMF call for suspending debt payment by developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intv.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0e55a8b7bba3aa4f9c6089afd98bd03f_M.jpg\" alt=\"World Bank and IMF call for suspending debt payment by developing countries\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have urged its bilateral creditors to suspend debt payments from International Development Association countries to help them combat the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedFullText\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan being part of IDA countries, will also get a marginal benefit if the creditor countries agree to the joint proposal of IMF and the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a joint statement, the World Bank Group and the IMF said the coronavirus outbreak is likely to have severe economic and social consequences for IDA countries, which are home to a quarter of the world&rsquo;s population and two-thirds of the world&rsquo;s population living in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said the proposal is likely to be endorsed by the Development Committee during its spring meetings to be held on 16th and 17th of next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have urged its bilateral creditors to suspend debt payments from International<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}