The raise, an additional 100 million dollars on top of an existing 900 million dollar loan, was announced by World Bank chief Robert Zoellick as he met Pakistan Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh in Washington.
Zoellick in a statement said the money was for “immediate recovery needs and longer-term reconstruction.” “We need to respond strongly to the crisis at hand, but we need to do it without losing sight of important economic reforms,” he said. “This disaster underscores Pakistan’s fiscal vulnerability and dependence on foreign aid.”
Zoellick and Shaikh discussed plans for institutional and governance reforms in Pakistan in the wake of a disaster which has crippled the country’s economy.
The World Bank pledged to help Pakistan set up systems for tracking aid flows, and monitoring and evaluating the whole process to tackle waste and corruption.
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