World Bank approves 535 mln USD to promote social protection, aquaculture in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank has approved 535 million U.S. dollars in financing for Pakistan to support two projects to promote social protection and transform livestock and aquaculture sectors in the country's southern Sindh province.

A financing of 400 million dollars for the Crisis Resilient Social Protection program will build on the program's on-going efforts to equip Pakistan's social prot