Indications that the era of high NPL was back emerged in 2016 when the industry non-performing loan ratio rose to 12.8 percent, significantly higher than NPL ratio of 4.9 percent by the end of 2015. The industry benchmark is 5 percent. This is already having effects on the performance of the economy
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