Financial inclusion is an agenda of planning for development. India accepted this as a way of achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and incorporated it in the Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017). Now with NITI Aayog and Sustainable Development Goals...

“If the poverty of the poor be caused not by laws, but by our institutions, great is our sin”, wrote Charles Darwin. Bank as an institution, especially a rural bank in India has always been considered as a ‘Messiah' in the national agenda of poverty eradication. This national assignment...

While there is a strong feeling around that globalisation is tapering there are also serious concerns about continuing marginalisation of sections of population in India. Millennium Development Goals, Human Rights Advocacy, Economic Empowerment and Inclusive Growth have, therefore, become watch...

This paper highlights the interdisciplinary approach in research with an illustration of self-help groups and microfinance. It has taken two subjects namely sociology and economics into consideration. Self-help group is a subject matter under sociology and microfinance is a subject covered under...

In India financial inclusion has been given top priority in recent years in the philosophies and plans of both financial development and economic growth. Financial Inclusion is the delivery of banking services at an affordable cost to the vast section of the disadvantaged and low-income group....

In recent years financial inclusion has been given top priority as financial development and economic growth are interdependent. Women constitute almost half of country's population and their work participation is also increasing and diversifying and impacting her family, neighbourhood and the...

Small Help Groups, often known as SHGs, are comprised of both male and female members who come together to form a group of ten to twelve people. They put aside a modest sum on a regular basis and provide members who are struggling with loans. In the past, financial institutions such as banks did...