{"id":56226,"date":"2026-10-06T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56226"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:24:28","slug":"finance-minister-wagle-calls-on-world-bank-group-president-banga-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/finance-minister-wagle-calls-on-world-bank-group-president-banga-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Wagle calls on World Bank Group president Banga in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Oct 6: Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle held a bilateral meeting with president of the World Bank Group, Ajay Banga, in USA.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Dr Wagle, who arrived in the US, leading a delegation at the invitation of the World Bank president, held the high-level meeting with Banga in Washington DC, USA, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion featured the issues such as reconstruction of physical and economic infrastructures damaged by the catastrophic Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods, need for macro-economic reforms and mobilization of resources worth about one billion US dollars for insurance and social protection, according to Minister Wagle&#8217;s private secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>World Bank president Banga expressed grief over the loss of lives and damages caused by the disaster in Nepal and pledged that the World Bank&#8217;s significant assistance for the reconstruction drive.<\/p>\n<p>Banga appreciated the measures taken by the government for policy and institutional reforms and underlined the need for expanding investment in infrastructure and creating jobs within the country.<\/p>\n<p>President Banga informed that the World Bank would take initiatives to expand joint investment in Nepal&#8217;s priority sector, taking together development partners, including the Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>World Bank&#8217;s country director for Nepal, David Sislen, said it was the first direct bilateral meeting between the World Bank president and the Finance Minister of Nepal in the past three decades.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by high-ranking officials, including vice presidents of the World Bank, Johanes Zutt and Junaid Ahmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 6: Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle held a bilateral meeting with president of the World Bank Group, Ajay Banga, in USA. Minister Dr Wagle, who arrived in the US, leading a delegation at the invitation of the World Bank president, held the high-level meeting with Banga in Washington DC, USA, on Monday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56228,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56226\/revisions\/56228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}