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Bangladesh: Interest subsidy on agricultural loans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Announcement

27 Apr 2020

Bangladesh has announced a reduction in the interest rate for agricultural loans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

01 Apr 2020

Revocation date:

30 Jun 2021

Announced: 27 Apr 2020
Interest payment subsidy
On 27 April 2020, the Bangladesh Bank issued a Circular reducing the interest rate on agricultural loans from 9% to 4%. The differential interest of 5% will be borne by the central bank. This reduced ...
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