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RBI proposal to loosen lending norms for private players a catastrophe in the making -Rana Mitra

-Frontline.thehindu.com

The RBI’s proposal to loosen regulations for private lenders in the microfinance space will have disastrous consequences for the poor, especially women in rural areas.

Microfinance, a category of financial services aimed at serving people from low-income households who lack access to conventional banking credit and services, was originally designed by international finance capital institutions such as the World Bank as an alternative to providing direct concessional credit to the poor—which would empower them—especially in the wake of establishment of the neoliberal economy.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) ushered in the concept of microfinance in the early 1990s. However, compared with the disastrous Latin American experience, in India the formal fusion of microfinance with the structure of mainstream institutional finance was somewhat different and beneficial to the poor to a certain extent. 

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