Significantly, non-food manufactured products inflation, an indicator of demand side pressure, rose sharply from 4.8% in January to 6% in February and continues to stay well above its medium-term trend.

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With increased defaults on these loans, pressure to reduce interest and fees for the loans and a lack of a free debt indicator, many of the traditional loan products have been scaled back.

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