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Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in india

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009

"Although there has been considerable recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs following this pattern....

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Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in India

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009

"Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400 household panel, the authors use double differences, propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess economic impacts of longer...

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Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

Basu, Priya - 2005

"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … the reasons behind this, and the lessons learned. The analysis draws heavily on a recent rural access to finance survey of …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to …

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Sustainability of microfinance self help groups in India : would federating help?

Nair, Ajai - 2005

"The major form of microfinance in India is that based on women's Self Help Groups (SHGs), which are small groups of 10--20 members. These groups collect savings from their members and provide loans to them. However, unlike most accumulating savings and credit associations (ASCAs) found in...

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Measuring Changes in Client Lives through Microfinance : Contributions of Different Approaches

World Bank - 2012

ongoing in sectors such as education, health, governance, finance, and the private sector. …

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Microfinance in South Asia : Toward Financial Inclusion for the Poor

World Bank - 2006

In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as...

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Scaling-up Access to Finance for India's Rural Poor

World Bank - 2013

access to finance, and reducing poverty - a stance that has had influence globally. The need to improve financial access for … finance for the rural poor has improved somewhat over the past decades, with the public sector commercial banks being the … dominant players in the formal rural finance market. Yet, the vast majority of India's rural poor, still do not have access t o …

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India : The Regulation of Microfinance - An Analysis of Recent Proposals

World Bank - 2013

The Indian microfinance community has been pushing for legal and regulatory reform for several years, motivated primarily by two desires: (i) formal legal recognition and legitimization of the various types of microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in India and (ii) legal permission to...

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India : why fiscal adjustment now

Pinto, Brian - 2003

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India : Karnataka State Public Financial Management and Accountability Study

World Bank - 2013

Karnataka as embarked on a major fiscal and governance reform program that aims at restoring the state's financial health and improving the performance of the state's public sector. This study examines Karnataka's public financial management and accountability system (PFMA) light of this reform...

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