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 ...