There is overwhelming evidence that higher growth rate engenders greater reduction in poverty. However, one of India's dilemmas is extracting growth from all its able agents, including women. Thus, an all-inclusive and sustainable growth means all having equal access, opportunity, and capability...

In recent years financial inclusion has been given top priority as financial development and economic growth are interdependent. Women constitute almost half of country's population and their work participation is also increasing and diversifying and impacting her family, neighbourhood and the...

Cooperation means working together. The principle of cooperation is as old as human society. It is truly the basis of domestic and social life. Co-operative effort is ultimately the group instinct in man, which enables him to live together and help each other in times of stress and strain....

In India there are healthy signs of transformation in agriculture and allied activities. Visible improvement has come about through adoption of management practices through on-farm and off-farm operations in this sector. Agri-business has evolved out of the new input-output matrix. Agriprenuers...

The recent policy of allowing 100% FDI in multi-brand retail has generated political feuds with lot of “ifs and buts” rather than proper economic debates. The proposed policy is primarily an economic one and hence likely to affect significantly the national economy. This paper, therefore,...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the global currency wars of the day. Besides that, it explains the major currencies. The fear of currency wars and the ways of dealing with them is discussed. Impact of currency volatility on the Indian economy is also part of the discussion. With low...

Financial inclusion is an agenda of planning for development. India accepted this as a way of achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and incorporated it in the Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017). Now with NITI Aayog and Sustainable Development Goals...

“If the poverty of the poor be caused not by laws, but by our institutions, great is our sin”, wrote Charles Darwin. Bank as an institution, especially a rural bank in India has always been considered as a ‘Messiah' in the national agenda of poverty eradication. This national assignment...