Introduction; Introduction to the financial sector in India; Part 1: Micro-finance and development; Micro-finance and social and economic security; Micro-finance and livelihoods - the challenge of BASIX; Micro-finance and people's organisations; Micro-finance and system-wide change; Part 2: Micro-finance: organisations and institutions; Self-help groups and Grameen Bank groups: What are the differences? by Malcolm Harper; Costs in micro-finance: What do urban self-help groups tell us? by Mathew Titus; Exploring empowerment and leadership at the grassroots: Social entrepreneurship in the SHG movement in India; by Ajit Kanitkar; Sustainability and development: Evaluating the performance of Indian micro-finance; by Sanjay Sinha and Frances Sinha; Rising to the challenge of scale in India: Growing the micro-finance sector; by Mathew Titus; Emerging lessons and challenges; by Thomas Fisher; Appendix:Capacity-building and organisational learning project for development finance in India Glossary Bibliography Index About the authors and contributors. Bibliography; Index
Thomas Fisher was until recently the Programme Director for Local Economic Renewal at the NEF, London, where he built a strong team in enterprise and finance M S Sriram is a faculty member at the Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Clearly written and a pleasure to read... It provides an excellent summary of what is known about SHG and other Indian microfinancial work. Stuart Rutherford, 2002. An important and highly readable introduction... it certainly deserves to be widely read. Small Enterprise Deveopment Journal.
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