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Subject(s)

• Microfinance—India [Browse]
• Self-help groups—India [Browse]
• SHG-Bank Linkage Programme (India) [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in development economics ; 96. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in development economics ; 96 [More in this series]

Summary note

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

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English

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 1-280-68208-6
• 9786613659026
• 1-136-30810-5
• 0-203-11815-4

OCLC

• 804662400
• 801405371
• 795008715

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203118153

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