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Define Credit Multiplier.

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The Credit multiplier is equal to `1/"CRR"` and depicts the number of times the credit is multiplied, with a given amount of initial deposit.

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Money Creation Or Credit Creation by the Commercial Banking System
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2018-2019 (March) 58/1/1

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