The importance of Social Entrepreneurship (SE) is realized to alleviate poverty not only in India but for the entire Human Society in the World. The Author would like to share his rich and laudable experience in Social ...

Social entrepreneurship has come to be synonymous with the individual visionary - the risk taker who goes against the tide to start a new organization to create dramatic social change. This change can lead to social and ...

Grassroots in a developing country like India do not consider entrepreneurship as a means to alleviate their basic problems like employment and poverty. The number of people entering into business in the local vicinity of ...

Empowerment of women through micro units is the theme of our paper. Woman in India constitute around half of the country's population. Hence, they are regarded as the "better half of the society". In the official proclamation, ...

Women constitute half of the world's population. Today the difficulty is to move from the acceptance of equal rights to the reality of equal opportunity. This transition will not be complete until women and men have equal ...

The case of Lower bargaining power of the agricultural labour households when compared with the other households in rural areas is attributed to higher incidence of poverty on them. The two important elements contributing ...

India accounts for an overwhelming number of the poor in the world. The causes of poverty have been traced to lack of adequate employment opportunities and limited access for markets for the poor. With expansion of the ...

The micro finance programme aims at enhancing the economic empowerment of poor women through credit services. The programme is expected to trigger a process of graduation of poor households out of poverty by breaking the ...

Clusters of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises have been contributing to the eoconomic growth of India for the last several decades. The focus of this paper is to familiarize the policy makers about the economies and ...

The rice mill industry is an agro based industry. It depends on the production of paddy. India is the second largest producer of paddy in the world with the production of about 120 million tons per annum, with a steady ...