Rural Microfinance and Microenterprise: Informal Revolution

This book attempts an overview of varied dimensions, constraints and best practices related to rural microfinance and microenterprise, alongwith indepth papers on some key/emerging focus areas by erudite development practitioners/scholars. The book strives to work-out the modalities of a flexible multipronged strategy for discovering the pathway towards ‘formalization’ of informal sector finance and enterprise in the difficult rural domain of the developing world, amidst heterogeneity of options. This is a pioneering venture in considering microfinance and microenterprise as a continuum with integral and logical linkages. This high quality Knowledge Management Ready Referencer will be useful to all stakeholders/actors in the development arena–policy makers, microfinance/microenterprise field professionals, grassroots workers, activists, scholars and researchers of various institutions involved in rural management and development.