[ad_1] There are still eight days until the next salary, but many young people are already strapped for money. When 25-year-old Urvashi needs money after putting out all her monthly income, guess who she turns to? His loan shark is not his friend, his father, or his best friend at …

Recently, Pope Francis looked at usury – the lending of money at exorbitant rates of interest. “Usury humiliates and kills,” the pope told a group founded to oppose its practice. It is, he added, “an ancient and unfortunately still hidden evil which, like a snake, strangles its victims”. The victims …