Microfinance, Risk-taking Behaviour and Rural Livelihood

1. Structural Transformation of Rural Finance in India: A Critical Review
Sreelata Biswas, Anup Kumar Saha

2. Risk-taking Behaviour in Financial Decision Making: A Village-Level Study
Amit K. Bhandari, Ashok Kundu

3. Impacts of Caste, Risk, and Time Preference on Borrowing Behaviour: A Case Study in West Bengal, India
Nina Takashino, Keshav L. Maharjan, Seiichi Fukui

4. Microfinance and Rural Entrepreneurship: An Assessment
Sudipto Ghosh, Amit K. Bhandari

5. SHGs for Poverty Alleviation?: Insights from a Tamil Nadu Village Under Rapid Economic Development
Koichi Fujita, Keiko Sato

6. Achievements and Challenges of SHG-Bank Linkage Program in India: The Result of Village Surveys in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
Toshihiko Suda, M.C.S Bantilan

7. Synergistic Effects of Microfinance Through SHGs: A Study of Basic Health and Primary Education Indicators
Sharmistha Banerjee, Arijita Dutta

8. For a Better World: Livelihood Security Measurement of the SHG Members
Avijit Brahmachary

9. Public Spending and Rural Livelihood in India: A Study of MGNREGA
Komol Singha, Parmod Kumar

10. Factual Achievement of MGNREGA Calls for an Optimal Planning Using Fuzzy Logic
Chinmoy Jana

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Finance/Investment/Banking, Financial Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics, Economic Growth, Agricultural Economics, Entrepreneurship