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Empowerment of Women Through Self Help Groups: Karnataka Experience: Impact of Microfinance on Women SHG’s

Self-help Groups (SHGs) have emerged as an effective instrument to promote entrepreneurship and self-confidence among women, particularly in rural areas and empowerment has become an important paradigm of women’s developmental efforts of the state and the civil societies since two decades. Against this background the book is an in-depth study of Empowerment of Women through Self Help Groups. It contains the problems of Self Help Groups Members and draw correct policy suggestions for sustaining the reduction in poverty through empowerment. The study has been conducted in Kodagu district of Karnataka State, The book contains five chapters. India. This book will be of great use to Scholars, Administrators, Planners, Policy-makers, and Students of, Economics, Sociology, Commerce, Women Studies, Human Development and NGO s and also other functionaries dealing with women.

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Women Empowerment through Self-help Groups (SHGs)

In India, the advancement and empowerment of women has been a leading objective of state policy ever since the attainment of independence in 1947. Institutions of different types – central, state, and local governments; non-governmental organizations; civil society; and other bodies – are active to ensure gender equality as laid down in the Constitution of India. India’s Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012) recognizes women for the first time not just as equal citizens, but as agents of economic and social growth. The Plan’s approach to gender equity is based on the recognition that interventions in favor of women must be multi-pronged and that they must be provided with basic entitlements. Self-help Groups (SHGs) have emerged as an effective instrument to promote entrepreneurship and self-confidence among women, particularly in rural areas. This book provides a vivid account of the various measures taken by the government of India for the economic, social, and political empowerment of women. More importantly, it examines the role of SHGs in women’s development, thereby envisaging a synthesis of the formal financial system and informal sector.