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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit - eSocialSciences - 2008
Household surveys from 13 developing countries are used to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes†defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and...
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Values and Meanings of Citizenship
Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2008
What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
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Study on Impact of Micro Finance in Reduction of Domestic Violence Against Women
eSocialSciences; Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST - 2012
The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic violence, and if so, under what circumstances. [WCD]. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/].
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Report of the Expert Committee on Licensing New Urban Co-operative Banks
RBI, Reserve Bank of India - eSocialSciences - 2011
With a view to increasing the coverage of banking services amongst local communities, it was proposed in the Annual Policy Statement for the year 2010-11 to set up a Committee comprising of all stakeholders for studying the advisability of granting new urban co-operative banking licences under...
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Targeting the Poorest in Microfinance: Poverty Outreach of BDP Ultra Poor Programme
Sulaiman, Munshi; Barua, Proloy - eSocialSciences - 2006
Despite the general consensus that microfinance does not reach the poorest; recent evidence suggests that nearly 15% of … microfinance clients in Bangladesh are among the poorest. It is from the realization that even within the existing microfinance … benefit from microfinance services. This study attempts to assess the targeting effectiveness of the BDP ultra poor programme …
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Linking Banks and (Financial) Self Help Groups in India: An Assessment
Kropp, Erhard. W.; Suran, B. S. - eSocialSciences - 2006
A review of the progress and impact of the overall strategy for scaling up the SHG Bank Linkage Programme over the last decade. [Paper presented at the Seminar on SHG-bank Linkage Programme at New Delhi on 25th and 26th November 2002]
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The Micro Financial Sector (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2007: Legislative Brief
Sanyal, Kaushiki - eSocialSciences - 2007
While the Bill promotes the activities of MFOs, there are differing opinions on the cost efficiency of the MFO model. 􀂐 NABARD is designated as the regulator of the micro financial sector. However, its dual role as a key participant in the sector and the regulator could lead to conflict of...
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Using Change Rankings to Understand Poverty Dynamics: Examining the Impact of CFPR/TUP from Community Perspective
Sulaiman, Munshi; Matin, Imran - eSocialSciences - 2006
Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income-expenditure surveys can yield noisy results, overestimating transient poverty and underestimating persistence of poverty, especially for the poorest. In this study, we make use of an approach that relies on community based change...
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Microfinance Bill: Too Many Wrinkles
Asher, Mukul; Shankar, Savita - eSocialSciences - 2007
A regulator should promote social entrepreneurship and tap into the considerable expertise existing in the micro-finance … micro-finance services in a sustainable manner. The new bill needs to be reworked to amend its many deficiencies. …
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In Conversation with Mohammed Yunus
Rao, Kala - eSocialSciences - 2007
In Mumbai to open an office of the Grameen Foundation, Professor Yunus spoke on the growing role of microfinance in the …
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