{"id":297343,"date":"2019-12-12T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=44eb5e0489c5fbcf8552fc80d06bd9b0"},"modified":"2019-12-13T05:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T10:58:33","slug":"world-bank-and-imf-to-loan-pm-abiy-5-billion-for-his-economic-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/297343","title":{"rendered":"World Bank and IMF to loan PM Abiy 5 billion for his economic agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is set to receive $2.9 billion from the International Monetary Fund, adding further impetus to Prime Minister and Nobel laureate Abiy Ahmed\u2019s economic reform agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Having reached a preliminary agreement for the loans, all that remains is approval by the Washington-based financial agency\u2019s executive board that meets Dec. 18. Together with $1.2 billion from the World Bank and a further $1 billion in the pipeline, the two institutions will now cover about 60% of the funding for Abiy\u2019s plan, dubbed Homegrown Economic Reform, the ruling party-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corp reported. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-12-12\/ethiopia-s-reformist-premier-poised-for-5-billion-endorsement?srnd=economics-vp\" >CONTINUE READING<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>[brid  video=&#8221;501211&#8243; player=&#8221;14333&#8243; title=&#8221;Abiy returns from Norway&#8221;]<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[brid  video=&#8221;501221&#8243; player=&#8221;14333&#8243; title=&#8221;PM Abiy Ahmed receives Nobel Prize in Oslo Norway&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is set to receive $2.9 billion from the International Monetary Fund, adding further impetus to Prime Minister and Nobel laureate Abiy Ahmed\u2019s economic reform agenda. Having reached a preliminary agreement for the loans, all that remains is approval by the Washington-based financial agency\u2019s executive board that meets Dec. 18. Together with $1.2 billion from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Abiy-Ahmed-Ali-at-Grand-Hotel-in-Oslo-Norway.jpg?fit=1732%2C1154&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1flR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297457,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297343\/revisions\/297457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}