Micro-finance institutions and women's entrepreneurship in India

Title

Micro-finance institutions and women's entrepreneurship in India

Creator

Kumar, Mayank; Dhaundiyal, Pankaj

Description

Microfinance institutions are considered a miracle to reduce poverty, promote empowerment, reducing gender inequality by providing microcredit and other financial services to strata of people outside the ambit of the formal financial system. Such micro-credit and other services lead to promoting entrepreneurship ventures among women leading to financial freedom and economic development of the country. This chapter studied the status of microfinance institutions across all continents and their pace of evolution with respective objectives. India-specific mission objectives and business models of microfinance institutions were dealt with in detail. 200 literatures based on the keywords related to the theme of chapter titles were fetched from the Scopus database and were subjected to cooccurrence analysis using network visualization on VOS viewer software. Microfinance has been identified as one of the important tools for poverty reduction and women's empowerment by promoting women entrepreneurship. 2025 by IGI Global Scientific Publishing.

Source

Microfinance, Financial Innovation, and Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Economics;pp.23-56

Date

01-01-2025

Publisher

IGI Global

Coverage

Kumar M., Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Dhaundiyal P., Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 979-836936624-0; 979-836936622-6;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-6622-6.ch002

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