Subsidized interest loans reach $426 million up to June

Subsidized interest loans to productive sectors reached around $426 million in the first half of 2012. Medium and long-term loans represented 83 percent of the total. The industrial sector accounted for around 52 percent of the total, followed by tourism with 40 percent, and agriculture with 7.6 percent. The cumulative amount of subsidized interest loans to productive sectors reached $4.8 billion between1997 and June 2012.