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Small businesses see stimulus funds at last
The cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises, who were among the worst hit for the pandemic, appears to have started seeing the stimulus funds of late after initial reluctance from banks in disbursing credit to the sector.
So much that the disbursement to the sector has overtaken that to the large industries, which had started on a blistering pace.
As of March, 72.3 percent of the Tk 20,000 crore announced for the CMSME sector on April 13 last year has been disbursed to 91,427 firms, according to a finance ministry document. There was much outrage about the slow disbursement in the media and at the policymaking level, said Zaid Bakht, chairman of Agrani Bank.
Women have become more vulnerable in the current Covid-19 pandemic, and it is crucial that 2020-2021 budgetary allocation reflects the consequences of the pandemic on women, said speakers at a pre-budget webinar yesterday. Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) organised the event. Maleka Banu, general secretary of BMP, said the pandemic has further increased the inequality between
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The government could not spend two-thirds of its around Tk 25,000 crore cash-food support packages for the poor and vulnerable, frontline health workers and low-income farmers in the last year after its announcement.
During this period, 2.94 crore people and families have received financial aid and food assistance, according to a latest progress report by the Prime Minister s Office on the stimulus package prepared.
But, various studies of non-government organisations revealed, a large number of poor and marginalised people, hard-hit by the Covid-19-induced shutdown, remained outside the stimulus schemes.
After the pandemic hit the country in March last year, the government came up with a host of stimulus packages to help absorb the economic shock. Of the schemes, there were 12 packages involving Tk 24,973 crore for these groups.