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As India's Micro Finance Institutions (MFI's) Face Catastrophe, MFI's in Bangladesh at Risk of Failing

The recent news that India’s microcredit industry is in dire straits should trouble Bangladeshi policy makers.  Through a combination of credit-overreach and political demagoguery, Indian banks are facing the prospect of a wave of microcredit loan defaults. Given the nearly $4 billion risk exposure that banks have undertaken in entering into the recently booming microcredit […]

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