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This article presents a practical methodology to monitor poverty changes among microfinance clients using available … microfinance practitioners to verify whether their clients are moving out of poverty and validate management strategies aiming to …
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Jharkhand state is carved out from Bihar state in 2000. The state is rich in mineral resources and poor in agricultural production. More than 75% of work force is engaged in agriculture, but generates only 20% of state’s GDP. About 45% area is under non-agricultural use and 32% is culturable...
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Micro-Finance is emerging as a powerful instrument for poverty alleviation in the new economy. In India, micro-Finance …-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFCs). This changing face of microfinance in India appears to be positive in terms of the ability of … artisans" and "economically weaker sections" have been used to broadly define micro-finance customers. Research across the …
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current crisis has shaken microfinance in India and beyond and fuelled a heated debate on the (de)merits of commercialization …A crisis of microfinance in Andhra Pradesh (AP) is of highest interest to microfinance practitioners and scholars and … politicians around the world, because some of the world’s largest microfinance institutions (MFIs) are based out of AP. The …
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India in this regard and recommends certain necessary steps in order to consolidate the process of linking MFIs with other … applicable to India as well as other developing countries facing similar situation. …
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microfinance impact evaluation of SEWA Bank conducted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in India in …Microfinance has been on the development agenda for more than 30 years, heralded as the wondrous tool that reduces …, however, have recently been raised about the success of microfinance (Dichter and Harper, 2007; Banerjee et al, 2009; Roodman …
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aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between rural poverty and forest land management in the context of charcoal production under slash and burn. An optimal control model determines how a representative household makes decisions on the allocation of forest areas to work and use them to affect...
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