Sivramkrishna, Sashi; Panigrahi, Ramakrushna - In: Journal of International Development 13 (2001) 8, pp. 1119-1130
In India, the Self-Help Group (SHG) has emerged as a suitable innovative institution in bringing formal financial sector credit to poor. This article constructs an economic typology of SHGs based on four important economic variables, namely, interest on members' savings paid by the SHG, sharing...