Annotation This book examines the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural households, evaluates various approaches for delivering finan

In India, micro finance has emerged as a visible credit channel to the poor, whose access to conventional credit sources is constrained by the requirement of co

After achieving independence in 1947, the government of India and the Reserve Bank of India have made concerted efforts to provide the poor with access to credi

The founding of financial institutions in the developing countries, whose target groups are supposed to be poorer people and, in particular, income-generating m