Ha Noi has set aside more than VND2 trillion (US$87 million) in funds to support poor households, vulnerable groups, and small-to-medium sized businesses in a bid to speed up the capital''s economic recovery.
Thirty-four small and medium-sized businesses in District 1 received total
bank loans of nearly VNĐ3.1 trillion (US$139.1 million) at preferential
interest rates under the banking-enterprise linkage programme.
Commercial banks need to change their perception of small and
medium-sized businesses to boost lending for businesses, said head of
the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) Vo Tri Thanh.
