Microfinance Challenges
Author: Isabelle Guérin
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributed papers presented earlier in a conference.
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Micro-finance and the empowerment of women : a review of the key issues
Author: Linda Mayoux
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9789221123309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's Entrepreneurship and Microfinance
Author: Chiranjib Neogi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9811042683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a critical perspective on the issues related to women’s empowerment, microfinance, and entrepreneurship in India. Written by distinguishing experts in this field, this book highlights women’s empowerment, which is a process of entrusting power to an individual on the control over resources and decisions. However, these two factors are less effective in a society where religion and cultural dominance is high. The book sheds light on the social security measures undertaken by the government aiming to the right to work helped women who are bounded by social restrictions. Over time there is a shift in rural occupational structure towards non-farm activities, which is largely distress driven self-employment. Access to credit is a great source to provide self-employment that develops self-esteem among women and uplift their position. The book highlights the discrimination against women entrepreneurs in access to credit led to gender biased entrepreneurial society. Association with self-help groups (SHGs) has made women more socially empowered. SHG members help them to change their life in a positive manner through micro-entrepreneurial activities. The book has emphasized on the role of microfinance, which has served the poor to become financially self-reliant. It is observed that for second generation borrowers, the impact of microfinance seems to fizzle out, where MFIs who are gaining efficiency are diverting their objective of servicing poor, signalling a sign of mission drift.
Handbook of Research on Indigenous Knowledge and Bi-Culturalism in a Global Context
Author: Hameed, Shahul
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1522560629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociety is continually moving towards global interaction, and nations often contain citizens of numerous cultures and backgrounds. Bi-culturalism incorporates a higher degree of social inclusion in an effort to bring about social justice and change, and it may prove to be an alternative to the existing dogma of mainstream Europe-based hegemonic bodies of knowledge. The Handbook of Research on Indigenous Knowledge and Bi-Culturalism in a Global Context is a collection of innovative studies on the nature of indigenous bodies’ knowledge that incorporates the sacred or spiritual influence across various countries following World War II, while exploring the difficulties faced as society immerses itself in bi-culturalism. While highlighting topics including bi-cultural teaching, Africology, and education empowerment, this book is ideally designed for academicians, urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, researchers, and professionals seeking current research on validating the growth of indigenous thinking and ideas.
Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India
Author: Kumar, Neha
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2018-08-22
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen’s self-help groups (SHGs) have increasingly been used as a vehicle for social, political, and economic empowerment as well as a platform for service delivery. Although a growing body of literature shows evidence of positive impacts of SHGs on various measures of empowerment, our understanding of ways in which SHGs improve awareness and use of public services is limited. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper first examines how SHG membership is associated with political participation, awareness, and use of government entitlement schemes. It further examines the effect of SHG membership on various measures of social networks and mobility. Using data collected in 2015 across five Indian states and matching methods to correct for endogeneity of SHG membership, we find that SHG members are more politically engaged. We also find that SHG members are not only more likely to know of certain public entitlements than non-members, they are significantly more likely to avail of a greater number of public entitlement schemes. Additionally, SHG members have wider social networks and greater mobility as compared to non-members. Our results suggest that SHGs have the potential to increase their members’ ability to hold public entities accountable and demand what is rightfully theirs. An important insight, however, is that the SHGs themselves cannot be expected to increase knowledge of public entitlement schemes in absence of a deliberate effort to do so by an external agency.
Sustainability of a Government Targeted Credit Program
Author: Shahidur R. Khandker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780821335161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld Bank Technical Paper No. 304. Reviews the status and availability in developing countries of photovoltaic (PV) technology and looks at the prospects for using this technology in light of current energy use and costs of other energy sources. The report provides the necessary background information and highlights the questions raised and the calculations that must be made whenever PV applications are being considered in the developing world
Women Empowerment Through Self Help Groups
Author: Dr Rama Satyanarayana Mallapudi Dr Pallekonda Srinivasa Rao
Publisher: Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Published:
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ISBN-13: 938650104X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Role of Microfinance in Women's Empowerment
Author: Raji Ajwani-Ramchandani
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1787144259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelving into the effects of microfinance in both rural and urban communities, this book will be of interest to researchers of women studies, microfinance, and development economics.
Microfinance Self Help Groups in India
Author: Frances Sinha
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the role of the groups in encouraging rural women to become active in village affairs and benefits for the poorest. Examines the groups' financial management and financial performance. Considers implications for Indian microfinance and the global growth of the sector.
Empowerment of Rural Women Through Self Help Groups
Author: B. Suguna
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788183560962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll over the world there is a realization that the best way to tackle poverty and enable the community to improve its quality of life is through social mobilization of poor, especially women into Self Help Groups. Ever since Independence a number of innovative schemes have been launched for the upliftment of women in our country. Indian Government has taken lot of initiatives to strengthen the institutional rural credit system and development programmes. Viewing it in the welfare programmes of Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) and shifting the concept of Development to Empowerment. The Indian Government adopted the approach of Self Help Groups (SHGs) to uplift the rural women. The empowerment of women through Self Help Groups (SHGs) would lead to benefits not only to the individual woman and women groups but also the families and community as a whole through collective action for development. The book will be highly useful to students of social studies especially Women Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Economics and also to the students and research scholars specialising in Human Development and NGO s and also other functionaries dealing with women.
