{"id":108839,"date":"2025-10-28T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108839\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:08:07","slug":"world-bank-says-pakistans-slow-growth-fails-to-improve-living-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108839\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Says Pakistan\u2019s Slow Growth Fails to Improve Living Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pakistan\u2019s economy is expanding too slowly to meaningfully improve living standards or create enough jobs for its growing population, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cBusiness as usual is not good for the economy,\u201d Mukhtar Ul Hasan, an economist at the World Bank, said in a briefing in Islamabad. \u201cPakistan\u2019s growth potential has been declining for decades\u201d due to weak competitiveness, limited reforms, and recurring crises, Hasan, the lead author of a report on the country\u2019s economy, said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s economy is expanding too slowly to meaningfully improve living standards or create enough jobs for its growing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,1322,113,7319,1523,61,1095,21326,60,150,2239,123,3324,29742,20094],"class_list":["post-108839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-ireland","tag-jobs","tag-labor-force","tag-markets","tag-pakistan","tag-south-asia","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}