The present paper reviews origin, development and growth of the micro credit programme in India. The National Bank for … Agriculture and Rural Development in India launched its pilot phase of the Self Help Group Bank Linkage programme in 1992. Self … banks as also by adopting other delivery mechanisms for providing financial services directly or indirectly to the poor. …

rural women through entrepreneurship and the advantages entrepreneurship among the rural women. “Economic empowerment of …Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being … regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country; hence, the issue of economic empowerment of women is of …

attract women who are already active in the public domain (referred to as ‘self-selection’), so that those who are most in … significance of the program effect of SHGs by comparing empowerment levels of newly inducted and older members of SHGs. The paper … is based on a survey conducted in six municipalities in West Bengal, India. …

Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …

Vulnerability is today identified as a major cause of poverty and underdevelopment. Microfinance arises as an efficient … frequency of the risks actually endured by the poor have to be analyzed to understand the potentialities of microfinance. …

aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in India. [Planning Commission]. …

It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to …