{"id":10942,"date":"2023-12-06T23:08:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2023-12-06T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:08:38","slug":"abr-vydelit-uzbekistanu-100-mln-na-podderzhku-malogo-i-srednego-biznesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/novosti-uzbekistana\/abr-vydelit-uzbekistanu-100-mln-na-podderzhku-malogo-i-srednego-biznesa\/","title":{"rendered":"ADB will allocate $100 million to Uzbekistan to support small and medium-sized businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Asian Development Bank has allocated a loan of $100 million to Uzbekistan to support small and medium-sized businesses, Spot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spot.uz\/ru\/2023\/12\/06\/sme-loan\/\">reports<\/a>, citing the bank\u2019s press service.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The loan is provided as part of the second phase of ADB&#8217;s small and medium-sized enterprise development program, aimed at stimulating economic growth through the private sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;As the country continues to implement key structural reforms to transition from a state-owned economy to a market economy with a prudent overall macroeconomic position, SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises &#8211; Spot note) will play a significant role in accelerating diversified economic growth, productivity and value-added formal employment&#8221;, &#8211; said ADB Director General for Central and Western Asia Evgeny Zhukov.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Among the challenges facing small and medium-sized businesses in Uzbekistan is limited access to a variety of forms of financing, especially in the financial sector, which is dominated by banks with high interest rates and collateral requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The program will help ease regulatory and administrative burdens that increase the cost of doing business and disproportionately impact women&#8217;s businesses. The trade competitiveness of small and medium-sized companies will also improve through export diversification and productivity.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian Development Bank has allocated a loan of $100 million to Uzbekistan to support small and medium-sized businesses, Spot reports, citing the bank\u2019s press service. The loan is provided&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti-uzbekistana"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}