Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge … in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards …, especially for government programs like the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India. This study aims to provide empirical …

of the major tools for women empowerment and also it provides develop the society. This paper mainly focused on micro … finance and its impact on empowerment of Dalit women in Cuddalore district …

Micro Finance Institutions (MFI's) have been most successful in lending to women's self-help or solidarity groups … lending is to self-help groups of poor women. As a result, Micro Finance doesn't reach many of the potential borrowers in poor … as we would like. This paper presents an example of a self-help group that can include all adults, both men and women …