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How this Thai company is helping the poor escape the loan shark trap

Bharath Kumar
Despite outward signs of prosperity, a burgeoning middle class and one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the world at less than 1%, Thailand is ranked the world’s third most unequal nation after Russia and India, with a constantly widening gap between rich and poor. [1] In 2014, eight million households or one third...