Micro-credit, poverty and empowerment linking the triad
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| Sprache: | English |
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New Delhi
Sage Publications
2005
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| Beschreibung: | "ICICI social intiatives.org; UNDP.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : linking the triad / Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive and Ranjani K. Murthy -- Towards women's empowerment and poverty reduction : lessons from the Andhra Pradesh South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme / Ranjani K. Murthy, K. Raju and Amitha Kamath with research team -- Micro-credit and women's empowerment : a case study of SHARE Micro-finance Limited / Anuradha Rajivan -- Social mobilization and micro-credit for women's empowerment : a study of the DHAN Foundation / Veena Padia -- Awareness, access, agency : experiences of Swayam Shikshan Prayog in micro-finance and women's empowerment / Soma Kishore Parthasarathy -- Micro-credit and women's empowerment : the Lokadrusti case / Shashi Rajagopalan -- Social mobilization and micro-finance for womens' empowerment : lessons from ASA Trust / Kalpana Sankar -- Conclusion : analysing the link / Ranjani K. Murthy and Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive Two persistent problems that affect a significant portion of Indian women are poverty and violation of their human rights. In recent years, micro-credit has come to be viewed as a vital tool to ameliorate both conditions. However, there are few studies in the Indian context which test the validity of the assumption that there is a linear link between micro-credit, poverty reduction and womens̀ empowerment. This important and thought provoking volume brings together revealing case studies of micro-credit interventions made by six non-governmental and quasi-governmental bodies in five states of |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (369 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0761933654 0761933662 8132102134 8178295091 9780761933656 9780761933663 9788132102137 9788178295091 |