{"id":105615,"date":"2025-10-28T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:17:08","slug":"world-bank-says-pakistans-slow-growth-fails-to-improve-living-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105615\/","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":105616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,5399,219,3214,266,1943,27464,232,7039,220,111,139,69,2476,70493,24547],"class_list":["post-105615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-government","tag-inflation","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-jobs","tag-labor-force","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pakistan","tag-south-asia","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}