{"id":424289,"date":"2026-02-03T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=424289"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:32:16","slug":"world-bank-approves-95-million-to-boost-sme-financing-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/02\/03\/424289.html","title":{"rendered":"World Bank approves $95 million to boost SME financing in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong><em> <\/em>The World Bank has approved $95 million to expand access to finance for over 100,000 small and medium enterprises in Nepal and support job-led growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will strengthen Nepal\u2019s Deposit and Credit Guarantee Fund, introduce new guarantee products for underserved groups, including women-led businesses, and improve financial inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also invest in technology and capacity at the Credit Information Bureau to expand data coverage and help SMEs get better access to credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials say the project will ease financing barriers, support integration of SMEs into regional and global markets, and promote private sector growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The World Bank has approved $95 million to expand access to finance for over 100,000 small and medium enterprises in Nepal and support job-led growth. The project will strengthen Nepal\u2019s Deposit and Credit Guarantee Fund, introduce new guarantee products for underserved groups, including women-led businesses, and improve financial inclusion. It will also invest in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":338209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-424289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424290,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424289\/revisions\/424290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424289"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=424289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}