TY - GEN AU - Nair, Tara S. Ed. TI - Microfinance in India : approaches, outcomes, challenges SN - 9781138859340 U1 - 332.0954 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Routledge KW - N1 - Contents Tables and figures vii Preface ix Acknowledgements. xi 1. Vignettes in Transformation: Indian Microfinance since the 1990s Tara S. Nair 1 2. SHG Intermediation and Women’s Agency: A View from Tamil Nadu K. Kalpana 42 3. The Transformational Potential of Microfinance: Two Case Studies Anurekha Chari-Wagh 69 4. Integrating Microfinance Clients with the Formal Financial System: A Study of Two Villages D. Yeswanth 87 5. Microfinance and the Dynamics of Financial Vulnerability: Lessons from Rural India Isabelle Guerin, Marc Roesch, Santosh Kumar, G. Venkatasubramanian, and Mariam Sangare 114 6. Matching Finance with Client Needs: Some Pointers from a Field Study Savita Shankar 142 7. Supporting Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Beyond Microfinance Lina Sonne 153 8. Microfinance and Cooperatives: An Overview Navin Anand 9. The Seen and the Unseen: Revisiting the Impact of SEWA Bank Maren Duvendack 169 10. Issues and Challenges before Liberal Microfinance Cooperatives: A Case Study Tara S. Nair and Rutwik J. Gandhe 180 About the editor 211 Notes on contributors 212 Index 215 ER -