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People crowd the entry gate of State bank of India to exchange and deposit their old high denomination banknotes in Lucknow, November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar/Files

India Inc counts cost of cash crunch

PM Narendra Modi's move on Nov. 8 was aimed at cracking down on corruption and flushing out funds stashed away in India's "black economy". But the cancellation of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, more than 80 percent of currency in circulation, threatens to push Asia's third-largest economy into a liquidity crisis.

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