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Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …
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Using data from a survey of clients of a microfinance bank, Khushhali Bank, in 2005, the study revisited the survey … data and found that despite the Bank’s strict poverty-targeting program used in client selection and despite the surveyâ …
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This paper looks at the overall performance of the CFPR/TUP programme using the 2002 baseline survey and 2005 repeat survey. All the topics covered in this study could be analysed more deeply, but that is beyond the scope of this paper. Our goal here is to present a descriptive overview of the...
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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 … including promotional, protective and transformative strategies to make a real dent on extreme poverty.[CFPR-TUP Working Paper …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the different generations of migration theory and remittances from the development economics perspective, examining in particular the dichotomy between economic and social theory in explaining the nexus between migration and development. [ProGlo Working Paper...
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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 Mumbai to open an office of the Grameen Foundation, Professor Yunus spoke on the growing role of microfinance in the …
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Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There are many schemes taken by NABARD to improve the agricultural sector but there ahead which...
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informed and individuals are able to better evaluate the poverty status of those to whom they are more socially proximate …
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The Self-Help Emergency Prevention (SHEPherd) programme aims to use lessons from CRS/Orissa’s emergency responses in 1999 and 2001 to inspire an India-wide response to emergency prevention. The programme has witnessed first-hand the ability of SHGs to mobilize poor families and...
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