CONTENTS Foreword by Mr. Jitendra Agrawal vii List of Contributors xi Prologue xiii 1. Rural Microfinance and Microenterprise : The Informal Revolution Overview 1 Amitabh Bhatnagar 2. MFIs and the Maturing of Indian Microfinance 70 Frances Sinha and EDA Rural System Team 3. Agriculture Finance in India: Microfinance Innovations 109 K.K. Tripathy and S.K. Jain 4. Enabling Role of Governments in Microfinance Development: Experiences from Thailand 145 Marie Luise Haberberger 5. Andhra's Women SHGs : Participatory Poverty Alleviation 166 Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive 6. Micro-Pensions in India: Towards Mainstreaming 202 Miikul Asher and Savita Shankar 7. Clustering for Progress: The Road Travelled and the Way Ahead 217 Keshab Das, Mukesh Gulati, Tamal Sarkar and Sukanya Banerjee 8.Entrepreneurial Capacity-Building: A Model for Inclusive Growth in an Era of Globalisation 311 Vanita Viswanath and Amit Kumar Burman 9.Integradng Microenterprises into Markets through BDS : SEEP Network/USAID Case Study 333 Melissa Nussbaum, Ashok Kumar, and Alexandra Miehlbradt 10. Microfinance/Microenterprise Programmes and Women's Empowerment 380 V. Prameela and Smita Premchander Index 427