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Book SynopsisWhile the important topic of women’s empowerment through microfinance has been the subject of academic and practitioner interest, Ramchandani examines these issues from brand-new perspectives. This new work focuses on the Self-Help Group (SHG) model, an under-studied aspect of microfinance practice, and looks at both rural communicates and urban slums. Ramchandani presents recent empirical work from India including first-hand field-level case studies, where microfinance plays a key development role in reducing poverty, addressing women’s empowerment, and fostering rural economic growth.
Trade ReviewCommunity-based women-centric microfinance institutions can play a very big role in enabling women to realize their own inner strengths by leveraging the power of aggregation, says Ajwani-Ramchandani, but most of the literature and discourse is by international, male bankers. She focuses instead on the work of two women-centric grassroots organizations that have been working towards empowering women in India for over a quarter century. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Literature review Chapter 3. Conceptualising empowerment: A theoretical model Chapter 4. Nationalisation to demonetisation: An overview of the Indian banking sector Chapter 5. Microfinance in India- The self- Help Group Federation and joint liability models Chapter 6. Data and methods Chapter 7. An overview of the MFI Organisations: Annapurna Pariwar (AP) and GMSS Chapter 8. Observations and Discussion- rural area Chapter 9. Observations and Discussion- urban area Chapter 10. Vetale village: Then and now (2013-2016) Chapter 11. Concluding remarks
