{"id":189500,"date":"2022-08-27T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T03:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=189500"},"modified":"2022-08-27T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T03:25:18","slug":"tunisian-pm-stresses-cooperation-with-world-bank-to-advance-structural-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=189500","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian PM stresses cooperation with World Bank to advance structural reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ca8aec75-ebf0-46f3-b11c-7d77d8862c9d\" class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5706ed1f857aff8dc8e4bbd1d4edff83e3f17263\/0_73_2800_1680\/master\/2800.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=85&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9c35914d5394ad12b15f8b67cf2474e6\" alt=\"Tunisia prime minister Najla Bouden\"\/><figcaption>Najla Bouden<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>TUNIS, Aug 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Tunisian Prime Minister Najla Bouden on Friday highlighted the importance of bolstering cooperation with the World Bank to advance structural reforms in the country hit hard by a financial crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouden made the remarks during her meeting with a World Bank delegation led by its Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa Ferid Belhaj, according to a government statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tunisian prime minister also stressed the importance of developing the country&#8217;s private sector and called for the World Bank&#8217;s support for small and medium-sized enterprises in Tunisia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, Belhaj called on Tunisia to improve its business environment in order to encourage investment, the creation of jobs, and support for the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tunisian government is seeking to negotiate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 4-billion-U.S. dollar loan to avoid bankruptcy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To unlock the IMF fund, Tunisia needs to implement deep reforms, including freezing wages, cutting energy and food subsidies, as well as privatizing some state-owned companies.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, Aug 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Tunisian Prime Minister Najla Bouden on Friday highlighted the importance of bolstering cooperation with the World Bank to advance structural reforms in the country hit hard by a financial crisis. Bouden made the remarks during her meeting with a World Bank delegation led by its Vice President for the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189501,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189500\/revisions\/189501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}