{"id":47739,"date":"2024-04-17T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/finance-and-economic-planning-ministers-express-interest-in-world-bank-loans-during-meeting"},"modified":"2024-04-17T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:17:51","slug":"finance-and-economic-planning-ministers-express-interest-in-world-bank-loans-during-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/finance-and-economic-planning-ministers-express-interest-in-world-bank-loans-during-meeting","title":{"rendered":"Finance and Economic Planning Ministers express interest in World Bank loans during meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Neal Rijikernberg, the Minister of Finance and Dr Thambo Gina of the Economic Planning and Development are representing Eswatini at the ongoing IMF International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World bank group (WBG) spring meetings in Washington DC, USA, Government online platforms reported on Tuesday evening.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meetings seek to explain the different instruments for mobilising World Bank financing and support, including the different products offered by the Bank. 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Neal Rijikernberg, the Minister of Finance and Dr Thambo Gina of the Economic Planning and Development are representing Eswatini at the ongoing IMF International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World bank group (WBG) spring meetings in Washington DC, USA, Government online platforms reported on Tuesday evening. \u201cThe meetings seek to explain the different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-47739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finance and Economic Planning Ministers express interest in World Bank loans during meeting - 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