Purpose Post-independence, the rural credit market in India has undergone significant
structural changes in order to enhance the availability and efficient use of credit. The …

In microfinance, small amounts of loan, coupled with financial discipline, ensure that loans
are given more frequently; thus credit needs for a variety of purposes and at shorter time …

Self-help groups led to an increase in social recognition of self, status of family in the society,
size of social circle and involvement in intra family and entrepreneurial decision making …

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to those who are excluded from
conventional commercial financial services since most are too poor to offer much-or …

Governments, civil society organizations, development practitioners and bilateral as well as
multilateral development organizations have over the past three or so decades worked and …

The status of women indicates the character of the country “said by Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru”. Women empowerment is a process in which women challenge the existing norms …

The concept of Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered. The
women's empowerment is a process by which women gain greater share of control over …

A survey of 209 Women entrepreneurs was used in this study to examine how sustainability
factors affect women business owners' interest in and capacity in the rural Karnataka districts …

This theoretical paper deals with Islamic microfinance and its rationality in Indian context as
a panacea of Muslim poverty. Conventional microfinance system is very effective to alleviate …

This study examined the causalities of non-performance of self-help groups (SHGs) in the
context of polarised institutional expectations in the microfinance ecosystem in India …