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Define the following term:
Cash Reserve Ratio.
What is cash reserve ratio?
What is meant by cash reserve ratio?
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Solution
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is a certain minimum percentage of deposits that commercial bank and has to keep as reserves with the central bank.
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