Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the...

This paper aims to listen and understand the voices of the self-employed workers of a shrinking traditional iron kitchen utensil making microenterprise cluster based at Patardih village of Deoghar district in state of Jharkhand in India. The point of view of these self-employed workers have been...

Countries, developing as well as developed are emphasising environment sustainability of agricultural production, methods and practices. The traditional wisdom of farmers on indigenous agrarian practices increasingly being called into question owing to a host of factors. This paper tries to...

The banking industry has grown tremendously in volume and complexity in the last few decades. A whole lot of improvements have been witnessed in the area relating to financial viability, profitability and competitiveness. Unfortunately, there are concerns or issues that banks have not been able...

"Micro-credit is something which is not going to disappear...because this is a need of the people, whatever name you give it, you have to have those financial facilities coming to them because it is totally unfair...to deny half the population of the world financial services." - Mohammad Yunus...

Financial inclusion has been accorded high importance by the GoI and RBI to aid the inclusive growth process of the economy but the impact of these did not yield agreeable results. There have been formidable challenges in this area such as bringing sections of society that are financially...

When major commercial Banks are now looking towards the emerging markets of rural India, Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), which were set-up specifically for the rural sector, have had a bitter experience on the very same market. Almost all RRBs of India suffered huge loss, plagued by low morale of...

Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development (TOD) policies will be a key to the...

This paper aims to compare the changes in different socio-economic factors SHGs Women and Non- SHGs Women. Three main dimensions had been assessed in this paper i.e. loan analysis, savings pattern and empowerment. We found that SHGs women have higher score in Average Women Empowerment Index than...

Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the...