Publisher's Synopsis
The book is a discourse on the rural financial markets which are important because financial intermediation facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. The book contains elaborate discourses about the efficient provisions of loans, deposits, payments, and insurance services which enable entrepreneurship, innovation, and production to develop and flourishing the rural financial markets. The book is divided into multiple segments dealing with specific aspects of the rural financial market. Some of the topics covered in the book are microfinance as an instrument for poverty alleviation and a vehicle for advancing health system; Credit Information system; Income generating Performance Analysis of Social groups financed by PACS; and Critical Analysis of Microfinance in West Bengal. The book would appeal specifically to subject experts.