Microfinance and Sustainable Livelihood Promotions in India

The publication under review is an anthology of papers published for a two day seminar on the same subject at Post Graduate Department of Management Studies and Research Centre of Siddaganga Institute of Technology(SIT),Tumkur in December 2010. The theme on Microfinance is spreading across countries, to enable respective governments, for chalking out action oriented programme for poor and the downtrodden. The theme acquires temporal relevance in the context of more than 40% of people in the world below poverty line. Financial inclusion is considered to be an infrastructure state policy to make people covered under safety net. Given the capabilities and feeble power of the poor, financing them for carving out sustained livelihood assumes greater significance.