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<p>We are engaging with businesses in the UK and in developing countries to understand
the challenges they face with respect to protecting incomes and livelihoods in their
supply chains. As a leading shareholder and donor to the Multilateral Development
Banks, we have been working them to ensure that they are providing much needed working
capital to the small businesses and supply chains that workers and farmers depend
on in developing countries. We are exploring how DFID’s private sector development
finance programmes can respond and complement this support. For example, CDC, the
UK’s development finance institution, continues to invest in businesses across Africa
and South Asia to support jobs. The UK also currently supports social protection programmes
to assist the most vulnerable in more than 25 countries. In response to COVID-19 we
are providing expert advice to governments and international partners to assess how
and where social protection could be best used to support an efficient, coordinated
response.</p><p> </p>
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