That more than three-fourths of old SHGs in every year remain outside credit linked further with mainstream banks in India makes the doubt whether old SHGs are becoming non-existent within a very short period of their formation. The re-survey to some previously productive SHGs makes the doubt...

Public and patient involvement in social and health care has proceeded in many civil societies. Depending on the legislations on national and community levels, citizens and patients have a greater say in shaping social and health care. In Germany, the patient involvement by self-help...

Gegeben die individuell erfahrbaren Kosten der die Gesellschaft als Ganzes erfassenden Transformationsprozesse in Polen, und gegeben die Defizite bürokratischer Sozialpolitik, werden die theoretischen wie praktischen Möglichkeiten der römisch-katholischen Kirche Polens bei der Förderung von...

Vulnerability is today identified as a major cause of poverty and underdevelopment. Microfinance arises as an efficient solution for risk copying through insurance and saving mechanisms and through the creation of microenterprises. But nature and frequency of the risks actually endured by the...

NABARD is a key participant in the micro finance sector and has been closely associated with one of the two prevailing modes i.e. SHG-bank linkage mode of delivery of micro finance services. The developmental role envisaged in the Micro finance Bill for this institution will further strengthen...