encouraging women’s entrepreneurship. Hence, this paper not only examines empowerment, which women are attaining from microfinance …In developing countries, women’s empowerment is a major concern. Several efforts were made to tackle this issue as the … aims of poverty reduction and development cannot be achieved without giving attention to women’s empowerment. Over the past …

microfinance and is regarded as ‘magical wand' of women empowerment. SHG (Self Help Groups) Federations is a development over it …Women empowerment encompasses a wide range of interpretations right from seeing it as the means by which individuals … decades of 20th century world intelligentsia recognized the role of women empowerment in the development agenda and World Bank …

There is a radical undercurrent of socio-economic transformation in Odisha. Women Self Help Groups as entrepreneurial … organization have started contributing to their own cause and to the economy. Women entrepreneurship has many interwoven dimensions …