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Study on Micro Financing: Need for Innovation


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1 Ashoka Business School, Nashik, India
 

Micro finance means providing very poor families with very small loans (micro credit) to help them engage in productive activities/small businesses.

Micro Finance can contribute to the financial inclusion of the poor without which it will be difficult for them to come out of the vicious cycle of poverty. to strengthen all the available channels of providing credit to the poor such as SHG- Bank Linkage programmes, Micro Finance Institutions, Cooperative Banks, State financial corporations, Regional Rural Banks and Primary Agricultural Credit Societies. The strength of the micro finance industry lies in its informality and extremely It is required flexibility which should be protected and encouraged.


Keywords

Micro Finance, SHG, Poverty, Credit.
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Hema Prakash Gwalani
Ashoka Business School, Nashik, India

Abstract


Micro finance means providing very poor families with very small loans (micro credit) to help them engage in productive activities/small businesses.

Micro Finance can contribute to the financial inclusion of the poor without which it will be difficult for them to come out of the vicious cycle of poverty. to strengthen all the available channels of providing credit to the poor such as SHG- Bank Linkage programmes, Micro Finance Institutions, Cooperative Banks, State financial corporations, Regional Rural Banks and Primary Agricultural Credit Societies. The strength of the micro finance industry lies in its informality and extremely It is required flexibility which should be protected and encouraged.


Keywords


Micro Finance, SHG, Poverty, Credit.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21904/weken%2F2016%2Fv1%2Fi2%2F98420