its members, especially women. SHGs are key to women empowerment and ensuring regular income to rural and urban poor. The … overall impact not only helps to empower women only but also increases social and financial stability among rural and urban …

-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …

investigates the impact of microcredit on women’s empowerment and discusses the family challenges that married women face with the … microcredit. The finding suggested that microcredit has a significant positive impact on women’s empowerment. But access to … microcredit can give more power to women within the household that might go against the cultural and social norms and hence …