Women's entrepreneurship and microfinance. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chiranjib Neogi, Amit Kumar Bhandari, Sudipto Ghosh, editors.
• Editors: Ghosh, Sudipto; Neogi, Chiranjib; Bhandari, Amit Kumar
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction.- SECTION I: Women Empowerment.- Chapter 2: Women Empowerment in India (by Chaiti Sharma Biswas).- Chapter 3: Measuring Women Empowerment in the Household Sector: A Generalised Index and an Application to Indian Households (by Subhendu Chaktabarti).- Chapter 4: Traditional Institutions and Female Beneficiaries of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in West Bengal (by Arghya Kusum Mukherjee & Amit Kundu).- Chapter 5: Empowerment of Women through Public Programmes in Rural West Bengal: A Study on National Rural Livelihood Mission in a block of Purulia (by Tithi Bose and Archita Ghosh).- Chapter 6: Non-farm Employment among Rural Women: Trends and determinants (by Aparajita Dhara & Biswajit Chatterjee).- SECTION II: Microfinance in India.- Chapter 7: Efficiency and Mission Drift – Debate Revisited (by Chandralekha Ghosh & Samapti Guha).- Chapter 8: Microfinance and Human Development: A cross generation study (by Sharmishtha Banerjee & Arijita Dutta).- Chapter 9: Microfinance for Women Owned Small Business in India: Challenges and Opportunities (by Avijit Brahmachary).- SECTION III: Microfinance and Women Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 10: Role of Microfinance in Empowering Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Nadia District of West Bengal (by Bhajan Chandra Barman).- Chapter 11: Going Through the New Avenue of Life: A Study on Factors Working Behind Entrepreneurship Development through Self Help Group (by Kallol Das).- Chapter 12: Effectiveness of Women Entrepreneurs: A case based analysis (by Sanchita Ghatak & Mahima Sharma).- Chapter 13: Access to Finance, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: A Case Study (by Chirajib Neogi and Sudipto Ghosh).- Chapter 14: Discrimination against Women Entrepreneurs in Access to Credit: An Empirical Analysis (by Rabin Majumdar & Amit Bhandari). .
• Publisher Details: New York, New York : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (214 pages)
• Subjects: 331.40954; Businesswomen -- Government policy -- India; Small business -- India; Entrepreneurship -- India; Entrepreneurship; Small business; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9811042683; 9789811042683
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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