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Pakistan: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility

December 14, 2001

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Pakistan: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

Pakistan has established sound macroeconomic management and structural reforms under the Stand-By Arrangement. Executive Directors welcomed this step, and emphasized the need to maintain fiscal and monetary stances. They welcomed the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program, which focuses on the reform of tax policy and tax administration; public enterprise restructuring and privatization; raising growth and reducing poverty; and financial sector reforms. Directors urged the authorities for the full implementation of the reforms, and approved a Three-Year Arrangement for Pakistan under the PRGF Arrangement.

Subject: Bank deposits, Banking, Economic sectors, Expenditure, External debt, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Public debt, Public sector

Keywords: Audit target, CBR management, CBR staff, CR, Global, I-PRSP, I-PRSP expenditure, ISCR, Pakistan's performance, Poverty reduction strategy, PRGF program hinge, Public sector, South Asia

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    112

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2001/222

  • Stock No:

    1PAKEA0062001

  • ISBN:

    9781451830620

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685