banking services to maximum number of people is unsuccessful as a poverty reduction strategy. As a poverty reduction strategy …Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of … other economically active household members in alleviating household poverty. Results show that additional other …, results from the earnings regression analysis and logit analysis indicate congruence with generally accepted theory on poverty …

is currently the largest and fastest growing microfinance program in the developing world, has been aggressively promoted …Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … unbearable. India¡¦s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)-initiated Self-Help Group (SHG) program, which …

This paper lays out some of the basic concepts surrounding financial inclusion, including access to banking, digital … finance, and microcredit/ microfinance. It goes on to discuss various empirical and institutional studies of these dimensions … of financial inclusion in the context of developing countries. The paper then outlines several recent studies for India …

Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combat-ing poverty and income … investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing poverty and income inequality, and the determinants and conditional … robust evidence that financial inclusion significantly reduces poverty rates and income inequality in developing countries …

This paper investigates the determinants of the growth elasticity of poverty by using the internationally designed … poverty line, measured by the share of the population living below USD 1.25 per day. We identify the determinants of changes … in the poverty rate of countries using single and multiple OLS regressions as well as fixed effects. Empirical evidence …

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty … alleviation. It employs poverty decomposition and dominance analysis. The analysis was divided into four components: comparison … between male-headed and female-headed nonbeneficiary households. Results show that there is a large disparity in poverty …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …

matching, using data from the Self Help Group microfinance program in India. …The provision of business training with microfinance leads to a positive impact on assets for the participating …