{"id":987524418,"date":"2021-09-21T03:35:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/south-sudan-secures-us-174-2-million-to-address-the-covid-19-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:28:38","slug":"south-sudan-secures-us-174-2-million-to-address-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/south-sudan-secures-us-174-2-million-to-address-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan secures US$ 174.2 million to address the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>On 30th March, 2021, South Sudan received&nbsp; US$ 174.2 million to help finance the country\u2019s urgent balance of payments needs and provide critical fiscal space to maintain poverty-reducing and growth-enhancing spending. A sharp decline in international oil prices triggered by the pandemic and devastating floods&nbsp; has eroded&nbsp; South Sudan\u2019s economic gains. The economy is slated to contract by 4.2% in FY20\/21 (IMF). The economic downturn widened the fiscal and the balance of payments deficits, opening large financing gaps in the absence of concessional financing. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More about the news can be found on the link below<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/News\/Articles\/2021\/03\/31\/pr2194-south-sudan-imf-execboard-approves-us-174-2m-emergency-assistance-address-covid19\">https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/News\/Articles\/2021\/03\/31\/pr2194-south-sudan-imf-execboard-approves-us-174-2m-emergency-assistance-address-covid19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30th March, 2021, South Sudan received&nbsp; US$ 174.2 million to help finance the country\u2019s urgent balance of payments needs and provide critical fiscal space to maintain poverty-reducing and growth-enhancing spending. A sharp decline in international oil prices triggered by the pandemic and devastating floods&nbsp; has eroded&nbsp; South Sudan\u2019s economic gains. The economy is slated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987531075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[117,2316,124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}