Created to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on Brazilian companies, which suffered a vertiginous fall in business with the health restrictions, the National Support Program for Micro and Small Businesses (Pronampe) handled about R$ 62 billion in loans and financing in 850 thousand operations carried out between 2020 and 2021.
This year, the new edition of the program – which had more than 43 thousand contracts closed on the first day alone – will also serve individual micro-entrepreneurs (MEIs), which constitute the majority of legal entities in Brazil, according to the special secretary for Productivity and Competitiveness of the Ministry of Economy, Alexandre Ywata.
“In this new version, we have the insertion of MEIs. We are talking about 14 million companies, around 67% Brazilian companies. We are bringing a much wider scope”, said the secretary in an interview with the program. The Voice of Brazil.
The Ministry of Economy expects that Pronampe will lend around R$ 60 billion to Brazilian micro and small entrepreneurs.
