the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …

This paper aims to investigate whether access to microfinance loans and jobs under National Rural Employment Guarantee …, of the villagers of West Bengal. Here we consider microfinance system under individual liability loan contract and joint … liability loan contract separately. This paper shows that participation in microfinance programme, size of microcredit and more …

With special reference to India …

This paper shows that the Government of India supported microfinance program under Swarnajayanti Grameen Swarojgari … that the microfinance program is also able to reduce the vulnerability of the rural participating households. This is done … households under this microfinance program …

-beneficiaries) through a structured questionnaire from Sonepur district of Odisha (India). A livelihood security index (LSI) is constructed …