Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad - Softcover

9780761933663: Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761933662 ISBN 13: 9780761933663

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2005

Micro-credit, or the making available of small amounts of credit to the poor, is seen as a vital tool for poverty alleviation and women′s empowerment in developing societies. This volume examines micro-credit interventions made in India and provides valuable insights into: the role of social mobilization in reducing poverty; the working of community banking programmes at the village level; the efforts to create space for women to carry out credit and savings transactions; the process of empowerment through the formation of women′s groups; and the improvement of women′s lives through savings and credit activity.

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About the Author:

Neera Burra is Assistant Resident Representative and Senior Social Development Adviser at the Sustainable Energy and Environment Division (SEED) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India Office, New Delhi. A sociologist by training, she obtained her Ph.D. from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has previously been with the International Labour Organization (ILO) as National Expert in its women’s programme (1988–93) and with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) as Programme Manager for South Asia (1993–95). Dr Burra has been closely involved with NGOs and CBOs working on micro-credit and women’s empowerment for the last 15 years. She has also worked extensively on the issues of child labour and education and was recently awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the Globalization and Human Rights Programmes of the University of Chicago to study the impact of globalization on child labour.

Dr Burra’s current interests are in natural resource management for poverty eradication with a strong thrust on micro-credit, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication. She has published extensively in the field of child labour, and has also written on watershed development, women’s empowerment and micro-credit.

Review:

The book has been authored by eminent socialists, experienced bankers with valuable grass root experience of working on the pertinent poverty and gender issues and women welfare.

Author: Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics

This is a very useful book for understanding the various pulls and pressures under which micro-credit operates in this country.... The book is very well written and engaging and opens up several issues for debate. In a sector where most of the work that happens remains in spiral bound reports, it is important that more and more books come out and open up larger debates not only on the nature of the micro-credit programmes, but also on the methodological issues and overall impacts. This book is indeed a very useful and welcome addition as it helps to extend the debate to a higher intellectual plane. It is also an important book for the practitioners since it will help them understand the burden of expectations laid out on them by the world at large. Author: Vikalpa

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