{"id":436839,"date":"2026-09-28T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436839"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:42:39","slug":"finance-minister-urges-aiib-to-expand-investment-and-support-nepals-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/436839.html","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister urges AIIB to expand investment and support Nepal\u2019s reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Doha, Qatar:<\/strong> Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle has urged the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB, to expand its investment in Nepal and provide greater support for post-disaster reconstruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a meeting with AIIB President Zou Jiayi in Doha, Qatar, Finance Minister Wagle also called for increased access to concessional financing for Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/finance-minister-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/finance-minister-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/finance-minister-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/finance-minister-1-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The AIIB President expressed sympathy over the loss of lives and property in the recent Bhotekoshi floods and pledged the bank\u2019s support for Nepal\u2019s reconstruction efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said Nepal would receive grant assistance for project preparation and that the bank would consider highly concessional loans for less-developed members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance Minister Wagle also called for the speedy completion of AIIB-funded projects, including the Electricity Distribution System Improvement and Expansion Project and the expressway study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged the bank to support Nepal\u2019s green energy, cross-border electricity transmission, road and digital infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Wagle also called for the speedy completion of AIIB-funded projects, including the Electricity Distribution System Improvement and Expansion Project and the expressway study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":436840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5,1],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436841,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436839\/revisions\/436841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436839"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}