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Pakistan's Central Bank connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) announced that it has received $1.2 cardinal from the International Monetary Fund (IMP) arsenic portion of the ongoing loans programmes aimed astatine gathering clime resilience successful Pakistan.
The magnitude was released aft the IMF Executive Board had completed the 2nd reappraisal of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the archetypal of the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said successful a connection here.
#SBP has received SDR 914 cardinal (equivalent to astir US$ 1.2 billion) nether the EFF and RSF successful worth 10 December 2025 from the IMF.https://t.co/ifU6HGDWTipic.twitter.com/0JR8pcyx5u
— SBP (@StateBank_Pak) December 11, 2025The determination was taken during the board's gathering astatine Washington connected Monday (December 8, 2025).
The amount, which would bespeak successful the bank's overseas speech reserves for the week ending December 12, is portion of the IMF’s dual way bailout for Pakistan with a 37-month EFF and clime focussed RSF.
The IMF has, until present nether this bail retired package, disbursed $3.3 cardinal to Pakistan to enactment the stabilisation of the macroeconomics and agelong word fiscal structural reforms for clime resilience.
Cash-strapped Pakistan is presently successful 24th IMF programme agreed past twelvemonth to supply it $7 cardinal dollars implicit a play of 39 months.
As per the latest approval, Pakistan is allowed to gully $1 cardinal nether EFF and $200 cardinal nether RSF.
According to a World Bank study of 2022, clime and upwind related disasters, which person progressively been exacerbated by clime change, resulted successful $29.3 cardinal successful economical losses implicit 1992-2021, equivalent to 11.1% of 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which slowed developmental gains successful Pakistan.
More recently, the floods of 2022 killed 1,700 people, displaced 8 million, accrued the poorness complaint by up to 4 percent points, and brought economical losses equivalent to 4.8% of Financial Year (FY) 22 GDP, with reconstruction needs estimated astatine 1.6 times the budgeted nationalist improvement expenditure of FY 23, the IMF said successful a 2024 report.
