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Since independence in 1947, the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have made concerted efforts to provide the poor with access to credit. Despite the phenomenal increase in the physical outreach of formal credit institutions in the past several decades, the disadvantaged sections of society including women continue to depend on informal sources of credit. Regular institutions have faced difficulties in dealing with a large number of small ...
"Women empowerment as well as their participation on the basis of equality in all spheres of society is fundamental to the advancement of human rights, social justice and sustainable development. While most ongoing discussions relate to equality of women with men, the issues of Indian women are primarily developmental. Despite the acceptance of human resource development as a major tool of development and progress, women in India do not even have access to ...