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    For the poor in India, there’s no money in JAM

    India’s lenders will have to transform their mindsets and look at people at the bottom of the pyramid as potential customers, rather than social responsibility statistics to be ticked off in an Excel sheet 

    R Srinivasan
    May 06, 2022 / 15:47 IST
    A person working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MNREGA scheme (Image by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock)
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