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Rural finance in contemporary times: interface with microfinance
(2005-10-28)
In India, when we talk about rural finance, the stereotype offered is that of a banking system that
fails to reach out to the poorer clients and, when it does, fails to recover the money so disbursed.
The counter-point ...
Member funds and cooperative performance
(2003-10-21)
This research examines the role of member-funds in multi-purpose cooperatives in the state of
Andhra Pradesh, India. The central thesis is that member-funds, both in terms of quantity and
quality, can enhance the control ...
Financial status of the poor: a study in Udaipur district
(2006-11-01)
A village-level study conducted in Udaipur district of Rajasthan attempted to map the financial
status of the rural population and the funds flow indicated that the overall asset-savings-income
profile of the rural poor ...
Microfinance and the state: exploring areas and structures for collaboration
(2005-10-28)
Since the early 1990s, there have been many significant state initiatives in the institutional
and policy spheres to facilitate access to financial services by more poverty-stricken
groups. This article reviews the ...
Financial cooperatives in Quebec-Canada: a study of the Desjardins movement
(2000-10-18)
The paper is a study of the Desjardins movement which has had almost a century long existence. While the cooperative structure in Quebec, Canada is very similar to the Indian structure – of three tiers, the pattern of ...
Nagar panchayat hospital
(2001-10-18)
The case is targeted to discuss the importance
of accounting information in decision making
process. While this information is available
in standardized formats in corporates, the
local self-government accounting is ...
Reviving cooperative credit institutions: implementation issues
(2006-10-28)
The task force on the revival of rural cooperative credit
institutions (the Vaidyanathan committee) submitted its final
report in February 2005. This article lists the issues involved in
implementing an ambitious package ...
Information asymmetry and trust: a framework for studying microfinance in India
(2005-10-28)
In recent times, microfinance has emerged as a major innovation in the rural financial marketplace.
Microfinance largely addresses the issue of access to financial services. In trying to understand the
innovation of ...
Conditions in which microfinance has emerged in certain regions
(2007-11-09)
The paper looks at some macro data on the availability
of infrastructure, economic growth, density of
population and the availability of formal financial
services to examine if any of these factors explain its
growth ...