The practice of taking up economic activities through Self Help Groups is still in the infant stage in Assam although success stories are not altogether aloof. The SIRD embarked upon a massive awareness campaign to popularize ...

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 are now preferred clients in banks because they can be persuaded to operate on gendered notions of decency and discipline. The whole effort of gendering development has been endowed with the postulation that empowering ...

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 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 ...