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Title: Govt, World Bank sign $400-mn project to protect India’s poor from Covid impact
Source:Mint
Date:17 December 2020

The Government of India and the World Bank on 16 December 2020 signed a $400 million project to support India’s efforts at providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households, severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the second operation in a programmatic series of two. The first operation of $750 million was approved in May 2020. The programme will strengthen the capability of state and national governments in India to provide coordinated and adequate social protection to the poor and vulnerable from the shocks triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.




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