Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Rural credit and regional rural banks/K.A. Rasure. 2. Role of informal sector lenders in agricultural and rural development - an empirical study/Kanak Kanti Bagchi and Goutam Ghosh. 3. Rural credit for rural development in the global era/Birendra Kumar Jha. 4. Indebtedness of rural farmer households: an analysis of the Major States in India/Jagannath Lenka. 5. Micro finance towards empowerment of rural women: a study of Tekkali Mandal in Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh/D. Pulla Rao and M. Sundara Rao. 6. Rural credit in India: recent developments/Vipla Chopra. 7. Micro finance and poverty reduction: analytical issues in Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil Nadu/A. Gunasekaran. 8. Micro credit and women empowerment through Self Help Groups: a case study of Chennai City/A. Gunasekaran. 9. Rural agriculture credit in the post reform period some concerns/Praveen Sharma. 10. Rural credit in the era of globalization/S.N. Yogish. 11. Poverty alleviation through micro-credit programme of SHGs: a case study of Sabala in Bijapur District of Karnataka/R.R. Biradar, Venkatappa Naik and P.M. Pargonda. 12. Agricultural credit flow by public and private sector Banks-an economic analysis/Girija Yabannavar, Hosamani S.B. and Kulkarni B.S. 13. Microcredit: a powerful strategy for attacking poverty in developing countries/P. Loganathan and K. Saravanan. 14. Rural credit in India: issues and prospectives/S.K. Dhage and B.G. Lobo. 15. Changing scenario of rural credit in India/S.K. Dhage and B.G. Lobo. 16. Impact of institutional credit on the rural economy of Karnataka: a case study of  Kolar Grameena Bank/V. Muniraju and V. Ramakrishnappa. 17. Micro credit-a ray of hope for poverty alleviation in India/Pushpa Sinha and Ratna Mitra. 18. Rural lending in the reform era/Pushpa S. Abbigeri. 19. Contours of co-operative development in Karnataka-issues for the new millennia/S. Mahendra Kumar. 20. Self Help Groups and poverty alleviation/R. Ramakrishna, N. Subba Rao and D. Tata Rao. 21. Kisan credit card scheme: an overview with a focus on Andhra Pradesh/N. Subba Rao. 22. Upliftment of SHGs through micro finance institutions in Rural India/B. Vijaya and Veerendrakumar. 23. An agenda for new institutional order in the global era/S.V. Padmini. 24. Microfinance in India-from financial to social intermediation/V. Basil Hans. 25. Micro-finance as a tool of empowerment: a critical review/N.S. Mugadur and H.H. Uliveppa. 26. Globalization and co-operative banking reforms in India with special reference to rural credit on agriculture/A. Marimuthu, A. Bose and D. Bose. 27. Creating a safety net through credit/Sherly Kurien. 28. Rural finance in Contemporary India/Channabasavanagouda P. 29. Inclusiveness of banking system in India-in retrospect and prospect/Anjali Jain and Mona Khare. 30. Empowerment of rural poor through SHGs formed by DRDA and NGO in Bihar/C.S. Singhal. 31. Rural credit and agricultural development in India: an analysis of its structure, need and growth/Jayasheela and Shoukat Ali M. 32. Income generation for the poor through micro enterprises/K.P. Kumaran. Index.

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