IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cdipxx/v27y2017i7p1006-1019.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Does microfinance alleviate poverty and inequality? Studying self-help groups in Bodoland, Assam

Author

Listed:
  • Shrabanti Maity
  • Rahul Sarania

Abstract

This article aims to assess the impact of microfinance through a government-sponsored SHG–bank linkage programme (SBLP) of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in India, on poverty alleviation, employment, and achievement of financial inclusion in the Bodoland area of Assam. Empirical results from an impact evaluation showed that the programme had a positive and statistically significant impact on the monthly income, employment days, and financial inclusion level of participants of the SHG programme, compared to a control group of non-participants.

Suggested Citation

  • Shrabanti Maity & Rahul Sarania, 2017. "Does microfinance alleviate poverty and inequality? Studying self-help groups in Bodoland, Assam," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(7), pages 1006-1019, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:27:y:2017:i:7:p:1006-1019
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1355353
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09614524.2017.1355353
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09614524.2017.1355353?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Shrabanti Maity, 2024. "Rawls’ difference principle, self-help group, financial inclusion and social cohesion—lore or actuality? Experience of Central Assam," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-13, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:27:y:2017:i:7:p:1006-1019. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cdip .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.