Returning to their local communities after serving prison sentences, former inmates face serious challenges, including unstable employment, and financial difficulties. A credit programme with preferential interest rates was established under Decision No. 22/2023/QĐ-TTg, dated August 17, 2023 by the Prime Minister to help former inmates secure stable jobs so they can rebuild their lives.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) of Malaysia has launched a credit programme worth 750 million RM (179 million USD), aiming at boosting consumer spending in the country as one of initiatives under the Economic Recovery Plan (PENJANA). ​

The policy credit has come to all communes, wards and townships across the country, with priority given to poor and near-poor households.

More than 40,000 poor households in the south central province of Khanh Hoa escaped from poverty in the past 15 years thanks to the Government’s credit programme

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has helped build more than 8.7 million clean water and sanitation facilities for family use in the past 12 years under its credit programme.

Soft loans for poor households from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies have helped lower the poverty rate in the Central Highlands to 7.34 percent, according to the Steering Committee for the region