Download or read book Microfinance and Women Empowerment: A Study with Special Reference to Ramapuram Grama Panchayat written by Laly Antoney and published by Amazon Publishers, USA. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microfinancing expanded rapidly in India over the past two decades. India has witnessed innovations in financial options for Micro Finance Institutions (MFI), the addition of new products and services, such as insurance and pension schemes, and the entry of Internet kiosks to rural villages. It has been a recognised fact that microcredit is the most effective instrument of dealing with two crucial social issues, ie, poverty alleviation and women empowerment. The experience of microfinance concept is underlined the fact that it is an apt tool to empower the rural women economically, psychologically and socially. It is hoped to enhance the scope of empowerment of women, which has already found its way in the academic discourse on social welfare schemes and effective rural credit delivery mechanism. This will definitely pave the way for distinctively evolving a solution for Indian way of financing and women capability improvement in terms of the vision of Indian born Nobel laureate for Economics, Dr. Amartya Sen. This will also help us in evolving a societal friendly way of financing in developing the economy by improving the quality of life, living standards, to alleviate poverty, inequality, other developmental and gender issues. It will stimulate the women's imagination about a better world with less injustice and inequalities. Every social experiment or endeavor has inherent in it the potential for both success and failure. But if the experiment is in the right direction, the, failure becomes a stepping-stone to success. The pioneer in this experiment with the micro finance and women empowerment can take the first step or one step at a time, and this becomes the foundation of the ultimate success.