Near poor households access preferential loans
Sunday, 16:51, 24/02/2013
(VOV) -Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to offer households exisiting near the poverty line with preferential loans to help improve their living conditions.
The interest rates are negotiated between the bank and borrowers but cannot exceed 130 percent of the rates offered to those officially designated poor.
The PM’s decision aims to help raise local people’s living standards and protect social welfare in a sustainable manner.