Financial exclusion has long been the reality for much of India. Indian households and businesses hold their wealth primarily in physical assets like real estate, gold, and durables, while barely investing in any financial assets. For their financial needs, they rely mostly on informal sources like moneylenders, informal savings, credit groups (popularly known as chit-funds) and social networks. Accordingly, their interaction with the formal financial system has remained low.
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