Women's Entrepreneurship and Microfinance

Part I. Women Empowerment

1. Women Empowerment in India
Chaiti Sharma Biswas

2. Measuring Women Empowerment in the Household Sector: A Generalized Index and an Application to Indian Households
Subhendu Chakrabarti

3. Traditional Institutions and Female Beneficiaries of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee in West Bengal
Arghya Kusum Mukherjee, Amit Kundu

4. Empowerment of Women Through Public Programs in Rural West Bengal: A Study on National Rural Livelihood Mission in a Block of Purulia
Tithi Bose, Archita Ghosh

5. Non-farm Employment Among Rural Women: Trend and Determinants
Aparajita Dhara, Biswajit Chatterjee

Part II. Microfinance in India

6. Efficiency and Mission Drift—Debate Revisited in Indian Context
Chandralekha Ghosh, Samapti Guha

7. Microfinance and Human Development: A Cross-Generation Study
Arijita Dutta, Sharmistha Banerjee

8. Microfinance for Women-Owned Small Business in India: Challenges and Opportunities
Avijit Brahmachary

Part III. Microfinance and Women Entrepreneurship

9. Going Through the New Avenue of Life: A Study on Factors Working Behind Entrepreneurship Development Through Self-Help Group
Kallol Das

10. Access to Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Empowerment: A Case Study
Sudipto Ghosh, Chiranjib Neogi

11. Access to Credit and Microentrepreneurship: A Gender Comparison
Rabin Mazumder, Subham Dastidar, Amit Kumar Bhandari

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Public Finance, Entrepreneurship, Sociology of Work, Women's Studies