{"id":15,"date":"2026-05-07T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1998450\/finance-ministry-sbp-show-optimism-over-economic-growth-amid-expected-12bn-tranche-from-imf"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:38:25","slug":"908714027955151fb7d8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Finance ministry, SBP show optimism over economic growth amid expected $1.2bn tranche from IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday showed unanimous optimism over economic growth and achieving fiscal and current account targets despite the regional crisis.<br \/>\nThe development comes amid anticipated approval of disbursements worth over $1.2bn by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday and the scheduled visit of another mission for next year\u2019s budget formulation on May 15.<br \/>\nTestifying before the National Assembly\u2019s Standing Committee on Fina<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1998450\/finance-ministry-sbp-show-optimism-over-economic-growth-amid-expected-12bn-tranche-from-imf\">Read original at Dawn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday showed unanimous optimism over economic growth and achieving fiscal and current account targets despite the regional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}