Micro-credit, poverty and empowerment : linking the triad / editors Neera Burra, Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive, Ranjani K. Murthy
- Bib ID:
- 3640145
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- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005
- 369 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0761933662
- 0761933654
- 8178295091
- Summary:
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"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 women's empowerment. This volume brings together revealing case studies of micro-credit interventions made by six non-governmental and quasi-governmental bodies in five states of peninsular India, several of which have been supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)."
"The six case studies are diverse in terms of their socio-economic and geo-political contexts, the nature and ideological orientation of the intermediary organizations, the groups largeted by the projects (exclusively women or men and women); and the life-spans of the projects. Despite their differences, all the studies offer useful lessons on the institutional structures and processes that do or do not facilitate women's empowerment and poverty reduction, while exploring the potential and limitations of micro-credit to achieve these twin goals. This book will be useful for students and scholars of economics, women's studies, development studies and social work, while being of equal interest to policy-makers planners, activists and NGOs."--BOOK JACKET.
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- 1. Introduction : linking the triad / Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive and Ranjani K. Murthy
- 2. 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
- 3. Micro-credit and women's empowerment : a case study of SHARE micro-finance limited / Anuradha Rajivan
- 4. Social mobilization and micro-credit for women's empowerment : a study of the DHAN foundation / Veena Padia
- 5. Awareness, access, agency : experiences of Swayam Shikshan Prayog in micro-finance and women's empowerment / Soma Kishore Parthasarathy
- 6. Micro-credit and women's empowerment : the Lokadrusti case / Shashi Rajagopalan
- 7. Social mobilization and micro-finance for women's empowerment - lessons from the ASA trust / Kalpana Sankar
- 8. Conclusion : analysing the link / Ranjani K. Murthy and Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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