Author: Amitabh Bhatnagar
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180695674
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Contributed articles on microfinance and small business in India.

Author: Sanjeeb K. Jena
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788177083316
Category : Microfinance
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Most people living in India's rural areas draw their livelihoods from agriculture and allied sectors. However, the growth and balanced development of other sectors, such as industry and services, is also necessary to sustain the growth of the economy in an inclusive manner. Micro credit has emerged as a visible credit channel to the poor as their access to conventional credit channels is constrained by the requirement of collateral and high transaction cost. The target groups, therefore, broadly comprise small and marginal farmers, agricultural and non-agricultural laborers, artisans and craftsmen, and other poor individuals engaged in small businesses. This book focuses on micro finance and the micro enterprises in India, which help provide livelihoods, generate export earnings, and touch upon the lives of the remotest and most marginalized people. The needs, problems, and potential of these enterprises differ not just with the nature of activity (weaving, knitting, wood-carving, etc.), but also with the size, geographical location, and organizational structure. Not only do micro enterprises generate the highest employment per capita investment, they also go a long way in checking rural-urban migration by providing villagers and people living in isolated areas with a sustainable source of employment.

Author: Rabindra Kumar Swain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788177083736
Category : Businesswomen
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Micro finance is the provision of a diverse range of financial services and products, including small loans (micro credit), saving accounts, insurance, pensions, and money transfers. In India, these are designed to assist people living in poverty who are not able to access financial services in the mainstream banking sector because they have no collateral, formal identification, or steady income. Micro enterprises contribute significantly to economic growth, equity, and social stability. The sector is one of the most important vehicles through which India's low-income-earning people can escape poverty. With limited skills and education, poor women, particularly in rural areas, find tremendous economic opportunities in micro enterprises. This book explains and examines the role of micro finance and micro enterprises in empowering women from disadvantaged sections of the Indian economy.

Author: Daniel Lazar
Publisher: New Century Publications
ISBN: 9788177081671
Category : Microfinance
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Since independence in 1947, the government of India and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have made concerted efforts to provide the poor with access to credit. Despite the phenomenal increase in the physical outreach of formal credit institutions in the past several decades, India's rural poor continue to depend on informal sources of credit. Institutions have also faced difficulties in dealing effectively with a large number of small borrowers whose credit needs are small and frequent and their ability to offer collaterals is limited. Cumbersome procedures and risk perceptions of the banks have left a gap in serving the credit needs of the rural poor. This has led to a search for alternative policies, systems and procedures, saving and loan products, other complementary services, and new delivery mechanisms that would fulfill the requirements of the poor. It is in this context that micro credit has emerged as the most suitable and practical alternative to conventional banking in reaching the hitherto unreached poor population. Micro finance is the provision of a broad range of financial services - such as deposits, loans, payments, money transfers, and insurance - to the low-income households and their micro enterprises. The basic purpose of micro finance is to provide access to financial assistance, including credit to the poor, enabling them to start/expand micro enterprises and break out of poverty. Micro credit helps the poor in making available the credit and other financial services for improving their income and living standards. The micro credit program - which was formally heralded in 1992 with a modest pilot project of linking around 500 Self-help Groups - has made rapid strides in India, exhibiting considerable democratic functioning and group dynamism. The micro credit program in India is now the largest in the world. This book contains 45 scholarly papers in the field of micro finance in India, categorized in five parts: Micro Finance: General Observations . Micro Finance, Self-help Groups, and Financial Inclusion . Micro Finance, Poverty Alleviation, and Empowerment of Women . Technical Aspects of Micro Finance . Micro Finance: Case Studies in India and Abroad.

Author: Thomas Fisher
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 9780855984885
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Beyond Micro-Credit sets out how Indian Micro-Finance Initiatives are combining micro-finance with a wide range of development goals, these include not only poverty alleviation through providing savings, credit and insurance services but also promoting livelihoods, empowering women, building people's organizations and changing institutions.

Author: U. Jerinabi
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
ISBN: 9788183561112
Category : Indian women
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Contents: Introduction, Growth of Self Help Groups in India, Review of Literature, Methodology, Performance of the Self Help Groups, Impact of Micro Credit on SHG Members, Summary and Conclusion.

Author: Jose Joseph
Publisher: Amazon Publishers, USA
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :

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The most widely published feature of Kudumbasree is the setting up of micro enterprises using local resources as well as skills. Micro enterprise development is viewed as an opportunity for providing gainful employment to the people below poverty line and thereby improving their income and living standards. Micro finance in India started in the early 1980s with small efforts or forming informal SHG to provide access to much needed saving and credit services to the marginal population more importantly in rural areas. National bodies like the Small Industrial development Bank of India (SIBI) and NABARD are devoting significant time and financial resource to micro finance sector. The main objectives of this study 1) to identify important applications of micro finance among members in Kudumbasree, 2) to find out whether micro finance influences economic development of women, 3) to get insight about micro finance activities. A well-structured questionnaire was prepared to collect primary data. The questionnaire for this study was developed partly on the basis of existing literature and partly from the opinion of experts in the field by keeping in mind the scope and objectives of the study. Through this study an attempt has been made to analyse the working system of NHG of Purappuzha panchayath. Kudumbasree unit has created an innovative method of mobilising rural savings that eventually helped for providing credit. The members admitted that their socio-economic status improved after joining this unit. NHG unit has brought the national and international recognition as an ideal and workable model of participatory development for eradicating poverty.

Author: Dīpāli Panta Jośī
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
ISBN: 9788121210485
Category : Financial institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Soumitra Sarkar
Publisher: Readworthy
ISBN: 935018012X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Microfinance is a useful tool for reducing poverty and building the capacity of the poor in management of sustainable self-employment, by way of providing financial services like credit, saving, housing consumption credit, insurance cover, etc. This book takes a holistic view of the various aspects of the microfinance programmes as adopted under Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) in India, with special reference to the state of West Bengal. Critically examining how SGSY operates in relation to funding the programme, bank linkage system, training and capacity building of beneficiaries, thrift, credit and governance systems of SHGs, marketing of SHG products, role of bankers and NGOs, and the perceptions of the beneficiaries. It also analyses the impact of the SGSY programmes on the socio-economic empowerment of SHG members.

Author: Perumal Tamizhselvan
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 334679394X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 2, Bharathiar University, language: English, abstract: The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a vital role in the economic and social development of the country, often acting as a weapon for fighting against poverty. They also play a key role in the development of the economy with their effective, efficient, flexible, and innovative entrepreneurial spirit. The MSME sector contributes significantly to the country’s manufacturing output, employment, and exports and is credited with generating the highest employment growth as well as accounting for a major share of industrial production and exports. The MSME sector in India is highly heterogeneous in terms of the size of the enterprises, variety of products, services and levels of technology. Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) contribute nearly 22 percent of the country’s GDP, 45 percent of the manufacturing output and 40 percent of the exports. They provide the largest share of employment after agriculture. The book is based on a research study conducted in one of the municipal regions of Tamil Nadu. This study aims to bring out the performance, problems, and prospects of Micro Enterprises promoted under Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) operating in Tiruppur municipal region of Tamil Nadu. It presents how the micro-enterprises helped the members of self-help groups to come up from poverty. The book also contains the reasons for failure of micro-enterprises.