SIEM REAP -- Cambodia's $8 billion microfinance industry, touted by Western aid groups and foreign investors as bringing financial opportunities to the country's poor, is ensnaring families in crushing debt and could threaten the country's economy, according to a damning report released Tuesday.
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Cambodia's "reckless" microfinance industry puts economy at risk
Rights group claims lending practices amount to human rights abuses
Chan Veang holds one of her microfinance loan agreements, which she says she cannot read. (Photo by Shaun Turton, edited by Nikkei)
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