This note puts together the
existing evidence on high levels of interest rates on
micro-credit loans in India. It argues that if
micro-credit is to be considered as the most important
method of provision of formal sector credit to the poor –
as is the case now with the banking policy in India – it
would imply higher average costs of credit for poor
borrowers than in the past.
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