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Surviving from meal to meal on microcredit loans

Microcredit loans were designed to help inspire some of the world's poorest women to become entrepreneurs and set up their own business.

However Madeline Morris meets Dalit women in southern India who are using the loans to survive from day to day.

Broadcast on Thursday 20 January 2011.

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