About the Book: Micro Finance Self Help Groups Shgs and Poverty Eradication in
India
Micro finance is the provision of a diverse range of financial services and
products including small loans (Micro Credit), saving accounts, insurance,
pensions and money transfers. These are designed to assist people living in
poverty who are not able to access financial services in the mainstream banking
sector, because they have no collateral, formal identification or steady income.
Micro finance is a movement whose objective is a world in which as many poor and
near-poor households as possible have permanent access to an appropriate range
of high quality financial services, including not just credit