Secondly, a policy to extend concessional housing loan to earthquake victims was introduced immediately after the earthquake on 25 April 2015. Regulatory relief measures were also introduced to boost the credit disbursement from the BFIs and bring dynamism in economic activity in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake.
Even if the economy were to achieve an export-led recovery, a rise in import costs due to the increase in commodity prices would cause the terms of trade to worsen and real income to be undermined. As a result, even if the GDP figure increased, gross domestic income (GDI) would not increase that much.