Microfinance and Women Empowerment: Evidence from India - Review of Literature

Abstract

Development and boom of any financial system is connected to socio-financial empowerment of its populace. Microfinance nowadays is a extensively standard device for poverty relief and socio-financial empowerment of its beneficiaries. The beneficiaries being in large part ladies, the empowerment of ladies thru microfinance is a extensively studied and debated issue. This paper critiques the literature at the function of microfinance on ladies empowerment in India. It appears into the high quality and poor evidences and the demanding situations regarding ladies empowerment.