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This paper aims to investigate whether access to microfinance loans and jobs under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has any significant impact on the life satisfaction as well as happiness, an important well-being indicator, of the villagers of West Bengal. Here we consider...
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We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential selection bias is eliminated by propensity score...
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potential welfare loss. Using data from a randomized evaluation with dairy farmers in rural India, we test the impact of …
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the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …
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We examine the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good counterfactual and comparison group, we employ the...
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Performance -- Chapter 13: Role of Microfinance Institutions in Social Inclusion – A Study with Reference to India -- Chapter 14 …: Role of Microfinance in reduction of Poverty in India -- Chapter 15: Predicting the Likelihood of Loan Default Among … chains. Ramesh Chandra Das is currently Professor of Economics at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He has …
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