India: Microfinance and predatory lending – the same story? - Re-emerging World

India: Microfinance and predatory lending – the same story?

October 1, 2012

Ankur Sohanpal

This post examines the history of microfinance as it has been, in India. It examines the bills that regulated the sector post the Andhra Pradesh crisis of 2010, and compares the activities of some microfinance institutions with those of typical moneylenders, a refuge from which microfinance was originally designed to be. Read more here.

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