The Fernández government council approved disbursing RD$430 million in loans this first semester to help small business. The program is known as Programa de Financiamiento para la Micro y la Pequeña Empresa. It is intended to benefit 6,500 projects that will generate 24,000 new direct and indirect jobs. The government also announced an additional RD$80 million was allotted to the micro business program executed by Comunidad Digna in poor barrios of Santo Domingo. This fund is intended to benefit 20,000 small businesses and generate 30,000 jobs in those slum areas.
