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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451669103321

Autore

Bali Swain Ranjula

Titolo

The microfinance impact / / Ranjula Bali Swain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-68208-6

9786613659026

1-136-30810-5

0-203-11815-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in development economics ; ; 96

Disciplina

332

Soggetti

Microfinance - India

Self-help groups - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The self help group bank linkage program -- Impact assessment methodologies and study design -- Reducing poverty and vulnerability -- Asset creation -- Empowering women -- Building human capital through training -- Achieving impact and meeting challenges.

Sommario/riassunto

Financial inclusion through microfinance has become a powerful force in improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. In its unique ability to link the existing extensive network of India's rural bank branches with the Self Help Groups (SHG), the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has covered up to 97 million poor households by March 2010 under its Self Help Group Bank Linkage Programme. Policy-makers have proclaimed SHGs as ''the most potent initiative ... for delivering financial services to the poor in a su