Microfinance: Boon or Bane

TH. Surjit Meitei | A. Rajmani Singh | Category: Economics

Binding Type: Paperback Binding

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ISBN: 9789386677426
YOP: 2018
Pages: 175

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In the recent past, Microfinance has been considered as one of the important tools for improving socio-economic status of the poor and also an emerging financial service in the state, region and country by the policy makers and decision makers. The poor have the skill to do basic economic activities, but they do not have working capital to start their own business or enterprises. The amount of working capital required by them is rather too small and banks are reluctant to give such a meager amount of loan along with all documents and other necessary formalities. To bridge up this gap in between bank and poor, potential micro entrepreneurs and bank, microfinance take an integral role for financial assistance to set up their own small enterprises. It provide many facilities like the formal financial institutions and commercial banks do, but it is in the small quantities such as micro-insurance, saving, micro-loan, credit and remittance etc.

1. Introduction
2. Microfinance in India
3. Microfinance in North East India
4. Design of the Study
5. Microfinance in Manipur: Its Socio-Economic Impact
6. Data Analysis and Interpretation
7. Boon or Bane of Microfinance
8. Findings, Recommendations and Conclusion
Bibliography

In the recent past, Microfinance has been considered as one of the important tools for improving socio-economic status of the poor and also an emerging financial service in the state, region and country by the policy makers and decision makers. The poor have the skill to do basic economic activities, but they do not have working capital to start their own business or enterprises. The amount of working capital required by them is rather too small and banks are reluctant to give such a meager amount of loan along with all documents and other necessary formalities. To bridge up this gap in between bank and poor, potential micro entrepreneurs and bank, microfinance take an integral role for financial assistance to set up their own small enterprises. It provide many facilities like the formal financial institutions and commercial banks do, but it is in the small quantities such as micro-insurance, saving, micro-loan, credit and remittance etc.

1. Introduction
2. Microfinance in India
3. Microfinance in North East India
4. Design of the Study
5. Microfinance in Manipur: Its Socio-Economic Impact
6. Data Analysis and Interpretation
7. Boon or Bane of Microfinance
8. Findings, Recommendations and Conclusion
Bibliography