intermediation, (ii) growth and development of credit unions and microfinance institutions, and (iii) facilitate the development of …

social impacts of the formation of self-help groups in India. They find positive impacts on empowerment and nutritional …

"Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is … self-help programs in Andhra Pradesh in India. The analysis finds that longer program exposure has positive impacts on …

key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to …"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the …

"The major form of microfinance in India is that based on women's Self Help Groups (SHGs), which are small groups of 10 …

In the past two years, the publication of three impact evaluations of microcredit programs in India, the Philippines …

In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinance institutions grew to include millions of clients. The start … of the twenty-first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively; in India, a …

Since the early national plans, successive governments in independent India have emphasized the link between improving … India's poor, the overwhelming majority of whom are concentrated in rural areas, motivated the nationalization of commercial … dominant players in the formal rural finance market. Yet, the vast majority of India's rural poor, still do not have access t o …

of the microfinance community have engaged with the Government of India in a dialogue regarding the regulation of …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 …