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Micro Finance continues its massive expansion in India. Banks and Micro-Finance Institutions have their spread and outreach: they have given access to financial services to the poor and women in particular, with their diversified services but empowerment is still as issue and a point of consideration. Are women still looked as mere clients or as leaders and managers of credit? The book investigates the outreach of microfinance to women and its impact an empowerment of women, involvement of SHG entrepreneurs in micro enterprises and identifies the determinant and deterring factors to SHG entrepreneurship and empowerment process. The book affirms the view that provision of financial services is not a ‘magic’ wand to empower women over night. Access to credit alone cannot empower a woman; gendered power relations within the household must be taken into account because it affects the distribution and use of cash resources.
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