Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …-SHG (control) members. Furthermore, we find that the poverty contributes to about 80 percent of the vulnerability faced by the …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …-SHG (control) members. Furthermore, we find that the poverty contributes to about 80 percent of the vulnerability faced by the …

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 … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Using theSHG rural household survey data collected in 2003, we examine the poverty and vulnerability profiles of SHG and non …-SHG rural, low-income household members. Our construction of the vulnerability is based on a methodology that allows for the …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using cross-sectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method. -- Microfinance ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Self Help …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 …

, has in the past decade been followed by microfinance, a for-profit sibling of a different temperament. Microfinance in … problem is not unique: Microfinance is beginning to show its kinship to exploitative lending practices that have developed in …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …

vulnerability of the participating households of this microfinance programme. …This paper shows that government of India supported microfinance programme under SGSY scheme is partially effective to … reduce poverty of the rural households. Few expansion of National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme plays here the supportive …