{"id":102763,"date":"2025-10-28T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/102763\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:42:08","slug":"world-bank-says-pakistans-slow-growth-fails-to-improve-living-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/102763\/","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":102764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,1575,184,3472,234,85,932,19127,46,265,41740,190,338,28063,17510],"class_list":{"0":"post-102763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-debt","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-inflation","15":"tag-international-monetary-fund","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-labor-force","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-pakistan","21":"tag-south-asia","22":"tag-world-bank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}