{"id":356637,"date":"2021-04-24T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=356637"},"modified":"2021-04-24T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:06:56","slug":"ethiopia-and-world-bank-signed-907m-financing-agreement-to-fight-covid-19-improve-access-to-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/356637","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and World Bank signed $907m financing agreement to fight COVID-19, improve access to electricity (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Finance signed a $907 million financing agreement with the World Bank aimed at improving access to financing for Small, Medium and Enterprises (SMEs), the fight against COVID-19 and electricity investment.<\/p>\n<p>Some $700 million was a loan and $207 million a grant, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that $200 million will go towards small and medium businesses affected by the pandemic with the aim of easing their financing challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Another $207 million will be for the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines and the remaining $500 million will be invested in efforts to increase access to electricity in the Horn of Africa nation.Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"462\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ucW1jX1LKK4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Finance signed a $907 million financing agreement with the World Bank aimed at improving access to financing for Small, Medium and Enterprises (SMEs), the fight against COVID-19 and electricity investment. Some $700 million was a loan and $207 million a grant, the ministry said in a statement. The ministry said that $200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":356638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ethiopia-and-WB.jpg?fit=750%2C430&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uMd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356640,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356637\/revisions\/356640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}