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Women Self Help Groups – A Case Study of Kannad Block, Aurangabad District
Kashinath, Kshirsagar - 2016
Self-help Group is a small economically homogeneous and affinity group of rural poor which is voluntarily ready to contribute to a common fund to be lent to its members as per group decision, which works for group's solidarity, self group, awareness, social and economic empowerment through...
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An Empirical Study of Self-Helps Groups and Awareness of Group Members
Lokhande, M. A. - 2016
Self-help groups, as it evident from research studies, are instrumental in creating awareness and socio-economic development of group members and their families. The groups are formed and run on democratic principles. Generally, homogeneous groups of the same socio-economic background are...
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Mediating effect of utilisation in the relation between loan services from PSBs and capital formation of MSMEs : a study of Purba and Paschim Medinipur districts of West Bengal
Islam, Sajijul; Ganguly, Debdas - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 9 (2019) 57, pp. 1-16
The micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have been acknowledged as the engine of economic growth and for promoting equitable progress all over the world. Let there be any category of countries, the existence of MSMEs is predictable. The MSME sector is playing a pivotal role majorly in...
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Women and Economic Development : Women Entrepreneurship Situation in Haiti
Mauconduit, Nedjée - 2014
Women's role in economic development is commonly admitted. But in many countries, women's economic activities are still an extension of historical domestic occupation. In this article, we analyze the Haitian women entrepreneurial situation and show that women empowerment currently claimed by...
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Group Lending, Joint Liability, and Social Capital : Insights from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
Haldar, Antara - 2017
This article grapples with the causes of India's microfinance crisis. By contrasting Bangladesh's highly successful … Grameen model with the allegedly “universalizable” version of India's SKS Microfinance (which precipitated the crisis), trust … — as the essential element accounting for the early success of microfinance. It is argued that the microfinance experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964743
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Fostering Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Structural and Relational Social Capital Through Microfinance
Ojong, Nathanael - 2018
This paper uses a multi-dimensional perspective on social capital to investigate how a microfinance institution can … meetings and interactions between borrowers, group-based microfinance facilitates the development of relational trust and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929495
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Financial inclusion in Asia : an overview
Ayyagari, Meghana; Beck, Thorsten - 2015
This paper provides an analysis of financial development and inclusion in developing Asia using data from a wide array of sources. We show that in terms of aggregate measures of financial development, the region as a whole has superior banking sector depth compared to other developing regions;...
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Does self help group participation lead to asset creation?
Swain, Ranjula Bali (contributor);  … - 2008
Self Help Groups (SHGs) are unique in that they are mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial … effect. -- Asset creation ; microfinance ; impact ; Self Help Groups …
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The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2013
of a particular microfinance institution (Spandana) while the remainder were not, although other MFIs were free to enter …. We found no changes in any of the development outcomes that are often believed to be affected by microfinance, including …
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Microfinance Duration and Development : The Case of Three Cities in India
Lahiri, Radhika; Wei, Honghong - 2023
literature; whether microfinance impacts positively on these dimensions depends on the type of social capital and its level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350988