{"id":72572,"date":"2020-12-09T12:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=72572"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:49:24","slug":"pakistan-lands-spot-amongst-top-5-countries-with-most-investment-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-lands-spot-amongst-top-5-countries-with-most-investment-in-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan lands spot amongst top 5 countries with most investment in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: As per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-expects-pakistan-economy-grow-0-5-2020-21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Bank<\/a> report, Pakistan \u2013 for the first time\u2013 has become one of the top five countries in the world with the most investment in the first half of 2020, according to a news source published on December 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/adb-vp-praises-pakistans-smart-lockdown-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADB VP praises Pakistan\u2019s smart lockdown policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) 2020 Half Yearly Report stated, &#8220;Pakistan had the fourth-highest investment commitments, a new entrant to the top five countries this year with $1.9 billion of investment commitments, accounting for 0.69 per cent of GDP&#8221;. Moreover, the report stated that the current year\u2019s Private Participation in Infrastructure as unprecedented because of COVID-19 \u2013 which has brought many sectors like infrastructure to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the beginning of 2020, existing infrastructure projects were cancelled or delayed owing to the supply chain disruptions, travel and shipping restrictions and other such hindrances. Reportedly, the coronavirus pandemic has significantly reduced financial closures of investment projects across the globe, particularly in East Asia and the Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistans-cement-sector-reports-high-growth-first-quarter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan\u2019s cement sector reports high growth in first quarter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pipeline in Mexico and a Thar power plant in Pakistan (under the China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor) are the only two mega-scale projects that reached financial closure in the first half-year of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: As per a World Bank report, Pakistan \u2013 for the first time\u2013 has become one of the top five countries in the world with the most investment in the first half of 2020, according to a news source published on December 9. Read: ADB VP praises Pakistan\u2019s smart lockdown policy The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) 2020 Half Yearly Report stated, &#8220;Pakistan had the fourth-highest investment commitments, a new entrant to the top five countries this year with $1.9 billion of investment commitments, accounting for 0.69 per cent of GDP&#8221;. Moreover, the report stated that the current year\u2019s Private Participation in Infrastructure as unprecedented because of COVID-19 \u2013 which has brought many sectors like infrastructure to a halt. Since the beginning of 2020, existing infrastructure projects were cancelled or delayed owing to the supply chain disruptions, travel and shipping restrictions and other such hindrances. Reportedly, the coronavirus pandemic has significantly reduced financial closures of investment projects across the globe, particularly in East Asia and the Pacific region. Read: Pakistan\u2019s cement sector reports high growth in first quarter A pipeline in Mexico and a Thar power plant in Pakistan (under the China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor) are the only two mega-scale projects that reached&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[43839,21890],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-pakistan-lands-spot-amongst-top-5-countries-with-most-investment-in-2020","10":"tag-world-bank-wb","11":"cat-15016-id","12":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan among top 5 countries with most investment - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) 2020 Half Yearly Report stated, &quot;Pakistan had the fourth-highest investment commitments\" \/>\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\/pakistan-lands-spot-amongst-top-5-countries-with-most-investment-in-2020.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan among top 5 countries with most investment - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) 2020 Half Yearly Report stated, &quot;Pakistan had the fourth-highest investment commitments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-lands-spot-amongst-top-5-countries-with-most-investment-in-2020.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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