Based on these targets, it is expected that the government will continue making efforts toward fiscal consolidation. B. Loan support program  Next, I will discuss the Bank’s Loan Support Program. To support full use of the accommodative financial conditions by firms and households, the Bank – in addition to implementing aggressive monetary easing measures – has established the Loan Support Program.
The program consists of two measures: the fund-provisioning measure to stimulate bank lending (hereafter the Stimulating Bank Lending Facility) and the fund-provisioning measure to support strengthening the foundations for economic growth (hereafter the Growth-Supporting Funding Facility).