Micro Finance and Poverty
Contents: Preface. Contributors. I. Micro finance in promoting weaker sections: 1. Micro finance in economic empowerment of weaker sections/S.K. Panda. 2. Micro credit SHGs and their work/Archana Sinha and M.K. Sharma. 3. Micro finance through SHGs: a boon for the rural poor/Rimjhim Mousumi Das. 4. Micro finance for rural entrepreneurs: issues and strategies/M. Soundarapandian. 5. Role of SHGs/A. Abdul Raheem. 6. Self-Help Groups and micro credit: synergic integration/Sabyasachi Das. 7. Impact of Self-Help Groups on income and employment/C. Gangaiah and B. Nagaraja. 8. SHGs and women/Loveleen Kacker. 9. Micro Finance for women\'s empowerment/Archana Sinha and M.K. Sharma. 10. The SHGs Model of Micro Finance: a silent movement towards empowering rural women/M.S. Chandrakavate. 11. Self Help Groups empower rural woman/T.R. Gurumoorthy. 12. The glimpse of microfinance/R.K. Srivastawa and Ajay Kumar. II. Self-Help Groups and empowerment strategies: 13. Inter-regional development of SHGs in India/P. Loganathan and R. Asokan. 14. Self-Help Groups: a catalyst of rural development/K.K. Tripathy. 15. Andhra Pradesh: pioneer of SHGs in India/Rakesh Malhotra. 16. Self-Help Groups Movement in Rajasthan/Subah Singh Yadav. 17. Self-Help groups in Kerala/B.V.C. Pillai and V. Hari Kumar. 18. Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana and SHGs: an assessment/Amal Mandal. 19. Self-Help Group Formation/Sunil Chaudhary. 20. SHGs in unorganized garment sector/Chittaranjan Mishra. III. NGOs and development strategies: 21. NGOs in micro financing: partners in rural development/Laxmi R. Kulshrestha and Archana Gupta. 22. Contribution of NGOs in implementing population policy/V.S. Gupta. 23. Rural development: a collaboration of GOs and NGOs/Pradeep Kumar. 24. NGOs and gender development/Syed Noman Ahmad. 25. Foreign aid to NGOs in India: an analysis/P.A. Rego. IV. Status of poverty in changed era: 26. Poverty, basic needs and rural livelihood/B.K. Pattanaik. 27. Poverty in India: synoptic view/S.B. Verma. 28. Review of anti poverty strategies in India/S.B. Verma and M.L. Vadera. 29. Rural industrialisation and poverty alleviation/K. Kamala Kannan. 30. Rural development and poverty alleviation programmes/R.S. Solunke and R.B. Gawande. 31. Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana/A. Subbiah and A. Muthumani. 32. Gender and poverty eradication: targeting all age groups/Siddhartha Sarkar. 33. Rural poverty and need for primary sector development/B.K. Pattanaik. 34. Liberalisation: what about the poor?/S. Bihari Verma. 35. The human face of liberalisation/P.R. Agrawal. 36. Dedicated services of NABARD to the nation/K.P. Rajkumar. 37. Globalisation and economic growth in India/Ben L. Kedia and Liliana Perez. 38. Innovation in Micro Finance: linked development programme/A.N. Sarkar.
"The strategy for poverty reduction accelerate the rapid economic growth with a focus on microfinance, access to basic minimum services for improving the quality of life of poorest of poor; and direct state intervention in the form of targeted antipoverty programmes." (jacket)
