Micro Credit and Rural Poverty

Contents Preface 1 Introduction to microcredit 2 Rural poverty in India 3 Environment and rural poverty of microcredit 4 Rural women empowerment through microfinance 5 Overview of poverty targeting programs in India 6 Industrial investment and the quality of credit 7 Organization and purpose of international monetary fund 8 The goal of financial management 9 Credit cooperatives and savings 10 Development of macroeconomic theory 11 Policies for reducing rural poverty 12 The World Bank and poverty 13 Economics and the causes of poverty 14 Geographies of poverty and rural viability 15 Problems of the poor and the pains of poverty Bibliography IndexMicro-credit has assumed a special significance in the context of increased emphasis on rural development In time to come the micro-finance sector is expected to growth further in term of reaching out to more families and would include more services for the poor Microcredit is the extension of very small loans microloans to those in poverty designed to spur entrepreneurship In that country it has successfully enabled extremely impoverished people to engage in self employment projects that allow them to generate an income and in many cases begin to build wealth and exit poverty Poverty is one of the main problems which have attracted attention of sociologists and economists It indicates a condition in which a person fails to maintain a living standard adequate for his physical and mental efficiency It is a situation people want to escape As the book addresses this crucial issue quite deftly it is hoped that it would prove to be a source of great information for the reader 288 pp.…