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Financial inclusion

Financial inclusion

Credit is a powerful tool if it is used effectively and when it is made available to the credit-worthy among the economically active poor people with the ability to use loans and the willingness to repay them. But it has to be bundled with other services to maximise impact on livelihoods.

Spare a thought for sex workers

a survey by the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in 2016 indicates presence of 657,870 sex workers in India. From another source, we find that there are more than 1,100 redlight areas in India, falling within the range of plausible hotspots of the ongoing pandemic.