In sustaining rural livelihood sustainability of micro–credit intervention is highly essential, which warrants a study on SHGs. Very recently the micro-credit movement through the conduit of SHGs in North-east India has been gaining momentum with the implementation of SGSY scheme. The...

Banking sector being the crucial among the financial infrastructure has seen several changes in past one decade. The commitments made along with several international recommendations in this sector have brought several important policy changes during the last ten years to strengthen the...

The phenomenon of disintermediation has occurred throughout the world, in both developed as well as developing economies, somewhere early and somewhere later. Capital market has also gone through changes, with government and corporations opting for direct market borrowings and investors...

Apart from emphasising on outreach it is also important for micro finance intervention to remain sustainable in the long run. Financial sustainability is the core of any financial institutions and considering Self help groups (SHGs) as grassroots level organisations engaged in the business of...

Socio-economic development is an important barometer for measuring and understanding transformation of individual, family, society and country as a whole. It has gained even more importance in the new economy with a special focus on its transformation aspect. The role of microfinance...