{"id":91152,"date":"2020-09-08T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T03:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91152"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T03:19:11","slug":"mongolia-world-bank-sign-21-million-usd-financing-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91152","title":{"rendered":"Mongolia, World Bank Sign 21 Million USD Financing Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ULAN BATOR, Sept 8 (NNN-MONGOLIAWEB) &#8211; Mongolia and the World Bank signed two agreements totalling 21 million U.S. dollars, to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and society, and protect medical workers from the virus, Mongolian Finance Minister, Chimed Khurelbaatar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreements were signed by Khurelbaatar and Andrei Mikhnev, World Bank country manager for Mongolia, here yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total amount, 20 million dollars are a soft loan, to provide temporary relief to eligible workers and employers, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and help provide the country&#8217;s job seekers and micro-entrepreneurs with improved access to labour market opportunities, Khurelbaatar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining non-refundable aid of one million dollars, will be spent on protecting Mongolian health care workers, who are working on the front line against the COVID-19, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mongolia confirmed 310 COVID-19 cases so far, with no local transmissions or deaths.&#8211; NNN-MONGOLIAWEB <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULAN BATOR, Sept 8 (NNN-MONGOLIAWEB) &#8211; Mongolia and the World Bank signed two agreements totalling 21 million U.S. dollars, to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and society, and protect medical workers from the virus, Mongolian Finance Minister, Chimed Khurelbaatar said. The agreements were signed by Khurelbaatar and Andrei Mikhnev, World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":91163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}