{"id":103931,"date":"2025-11-14T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=103931"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:50:49","slug":"imfs-usd-1-2-bn-disbursements-expected-in-dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imfs-usd-1-2-bn-disbursements-expected-in-dec.html","title":{"rendered":"IMF&#8217;s USD 1.2 bn disbursements expected in Dec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has scheduled an Executive Board meeting for December 8, 2025, to approve the disbursement of USD 1.2 billion to Pakistan under two concurrent programmes, with funds expected to be released on December 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tranche includes USD 1 billion under the USD 7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and USD 200 million under the USD 1.4 billion Resilience and Sustainability Fund (RSF). The release follows a Staff-Level Agreement (SLA) reached on October 14, covering the EFF\u2019s second review and RSF\u2019s first review. Once approved, total disbursements under both arrangements will rise to approximately USD 3.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An IMF team, led by Iva Petrova, held discussions in Karachi, Islamabad, and Washington, DC, to finalise the SLA. The IMF highlighted robust programme implementation and stressed priorities including sustaining fiscal discipline, supporting flood-affected households, maintaining inflation within the State Bank of Pakistan\u2019s target range, restoring energy sector viability, advancing structural reforms, and progressing the RSF-backed climate agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-fulfils-imf-conditions-ahead-of-dec-review-sbp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pak fulfils IMF conditions ahead of Dec review: SBP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the Board meeting, the IMF has urged Pakistan to publish and act on its Governance and Corruption Diagnostic (GCD) report. Recommendations include ensuring full transparency of the Special Investment Facilitation Council, creating a central registry of state-owned land and entities, conducting performance assessments of judges, publishing asset declarations of bureaucrats, and removing the finance secretary from the State Bank of Pakistan\u2019s board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a visiting IMF technical mission is reviewing Pakistan\u2019s budget formulation process and operationalising the newly established Tax Policy Office under the Ministry of Finance. Senior officials said recommendations finalised during these talks could form structural benchmarks for the IMF\u2019s next review mission, expected in February or March 2026, which will also finalise tax proposals for the 2026-27 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has scheduled an Executive Board meeting for December 8, 2025, to approve the disbursement of USD 1.2 billion to Pakistan under two concurrent programmes, with funds expected to be released on December 9. The tranche includes USD 1 billion under the USD 7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and USD 200 million under the USD 1.4 billion Resilience and Sustainability Fund (RSF). The release follows a Staff-Level Agreement (SLA) reached on October 14, covering the EFF\u2019s second review and RSF\u2019s first review. Once approved, total disbursements under both arrangements will rise to approximately USD 3.3 billion. An IMF team, led by Iva Petrova, held discussions in Karachi, Islamabad, and Washington, DC, to finalise the SLA. The IMF highlighted robust programme implementation and stressed priorities including sustaining fiscal discipline, supporting flood-affected households, maintaining inflation within the State Bank of Pakistan\u2019s target range, restoring energy sector viability, advancing structural reforms, and progressing the RSF-backed climate agenda. Read: Pak fulfils IMF conditions ahead of Dec review: SBP Ahead of the Board meeting, the IMF has urged Pakistan to publish and act on its Governance and Corruption Diagnostic (GCD) report. Recommendations include ensuring full transparency of the Special&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":87304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[69257,20718,64743,31136,49647,60737,7263,69256,11728,69258,69259,32,34475,69254,64745,69255,62427,67401,7503],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-2026-budget","9":"tag-economic-development","10":"tag-eff","11":"tag-energy-sector","12":"tag-extended-fund-facility","13":"tag-fiscal-discipline","14":"tag-flood-relief","15":"tag-governance-report","16":"tag-imf","17":"tag-inflation-management","18":"tag-international-finance","19":"tag-pakistan","20":"tag-pakistan-economy","21":"tag-resilience-and-sustainability-fund","22":"tag-rsf","23":"tag-staff-level-agreement-2","24":"tag-structural-reforms","25":"tag-tax-policy-office","26":"tag-usd-1-2-billion","27":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IMF&#039;s USD 1.2 bn disbursements expected in Dec - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ahead of the Board meeting, the IMF has urged Pakistan to publish and act on its Governance and Corruption Diagnostic...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imfs-usd-1-2-bn-disbursements-expected-in-dec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IMF&#039;s USD 1.2 bn disbursements expected in Dec - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahead of the Board meeting, the IMF has urged Pakistan to publish and act on its Governance and Corruption Diagnostic...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imfs-usd-1-2-bn-disbursements-expected-in-dec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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