between microfinance and women's empowerment. This paper contributes by arguing that women empowerment takes place when women …Microfinance programs like the Self Help Bank Linkage Program in India have been increasingly promoted for their … of the Self Help Group (SHG) on women empowerment for 2000 and 2003. The results strongly demonstrate that on average …

This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first … shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking … microfinance in the course of the last decade. As the author argues, this commercial approach is the only sound approach to adopt …

groups (SHGs). Indian SHGs are unique in that they are mainly NGOformed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial …

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty …

microfinance banks operating in several parts of the world. After discussing why financial sector development is a crucial … present the world's largest and most successful network of microfinance banks. This network is a good example of a well … in South-East Europe. This strategy consists in creating microfinance banks as greenfield investments, that is, of …

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of …

This book focuses on the achievements, current trends and further potential of microfinance to scale-up and serve many …, and to safeguard the synthesis between the financial and social dimension of sustainable microfinance. The book also sheds … debate on core values of microfinance, triggered by recent criticisms of an approach that was hailed as a panacea in the …

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where … the latent women empowerment and its latent components (economic factors and financial confidence, managerial control …

is currently the largest and fastest growing microfinance program in the developing world, has been aggressively promoted … unbearable. India¡¦s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)-initiated Self-Help Group (SHG) program, which … of the SHG program on the beneficiaries¡¦ earnings and empowerment, influence their households¡¦ ability to manage risk …