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The low productivity trap of collateralised lending for MSMEs -Harsh Vardhan

-Ideas for India

The share of bank credit extended to MSMEs increased dramatically during the pandemic. In this post, Harsh Vardhan discusses the the government guarantee of bank loans as a possible driver of this growth. He outlines the current policy of providing credit against collateral, and the constraints MSMEs face while borrowing– which leads to decreased investment and firm productivity. He argues that the learnings from the credit guarantee scheme could be used to design a permanent guarantee scheme for MSME credit.

Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are an important part of the Indian economy. Roughly between 6 and 8 million in number, they are estimated to account for around 30% of GDP and employ more than 100 million. Despite this significant role in the economy, they have been chronically credit starved. Issues of flow of credit to MSMEs has been extensively discussed for a long time and it is fair to say that it remains a policy challenge.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, MSMEs experienced a dramatic growth in credit from the banking sector. Bank credit to MSMEs, which had remained stagnant for almost five years from 2015 onwards, grew by 15% in FY2020-21, and by another 31% in FY2021-22. It is important to keep in mind that the overall bank credit growth in these two years was around 8%. Figure 1 gives details of the annual growth in bank credit to MSMEs, and the share of MSME credit in total bank credit. The share of MSMEs in bank credit, which was stable at around 8.5% for the first half of the last decade, reduced by nearly half to 4.8% by FY 2019-20. To put this in perspective, the share of (unsecured) personal loans given by the banking system in 2020 was 8% of total loans.

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