The silent microfinance crisis facing Punjab’s Dalit women

Overlending by microfinance institutions with next to zero self-regulation has sent indebtedness and defaults soaring in the border state.

14 February, 202215 min
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The silent microfinance crisis facing Punjab’s Dalit women

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