key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … Linkage initiative. It empirically analyzes the success with which SHG Bank Linkage has been able to reach the poor, examines …

and products to improve rural access to finance in India are reviewed, namely, the 'Self-help Groups (SHGs) Bank Linkage …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 …

This paper discusses rural finance aspects of the World Bank's rural development strategy, "Reaching the Rural Poor … highlighting priorities for the future. The primary objective is to articulate how the Bank views current best practices in rural … countries, Bank staff, and other donor agencies. In the process, it provides some operational guidance on the types of …

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integrate gender into economic policy work"--World Bank web site …

which now place greater emphasis on improved equity and investment. These have been summarized in the earlier World Bank … agricultural sector accounts for roughly 10-15 percent of GDP, it receives only 5 percent of all bank loans. Based on the survey of …