Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theories and Evidence of Financial Vulnerability -- Chapter 3: Building a Financial Vulnerability Model -- Chapter 4: Socio-Cultural and Economic Institutions at the Local Level -- Chapter 5: The Household as Financial Manager -- Chapter 6: Markets and...

Increasing economic inequality has become a cause of concern for the developing countries like India, where economic growth and income inequality go hand in hand. The benefits of New Economic Policy (NEP) have reached only at the selected few and a vast majority of populace remain deprived of...