The World Bank recently issued a USD 45 million loan to the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, supported by a USD 7.5 million grant from the World Bank’s Global Risk Financing Facility. The purpose of the project is to: (1) provide “business support services and financial products” to 500 micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), of which half are to women-owned and a quarter are to be youth-owned; and
