?The book focuses on how microfinance institutions can be the alternative way to supply funds to combat different phases of global economic recessions. Also, it emphasizes upon their capabilities in reducing poverty and inequality as the countries of the world today aim to attain the goal of sustainable development. The book further deals with the challenges that the micro financial institutions may face while sustain in the competitive and vast changing global business environment. Finally, the book analyses the effectiveness of micro financial services for the emergence of micro, small and medium enterprises with new technology and innovations which, in turn, can be instrumental in ensuring new relocation of global supply chains.
Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges
and Opportunities.
Chapter 2: Are microfinance institutions unscathed from
the recession? An empirical reconsideration.
Chapter 3: Microfinance as a
Strategy to Curb the Global Recession.
Chapter 4: Developing Strategies to
Improve Microfinance System in Turkey with Fuzzy Logic.
Chapter 5:
Efficiency of MFIs and financial inclusion in West Bengal: A DEA Approach.-
Chapter 6: The Road So Far to Micro Insurance: The Financial Revolution in
the Services for The Poor.
Chapter 7: Concentration of Financial Resources:
Evidence from Indian Unorganised Manufacturing Enterprises.
Chapter 8:
Financial Inclusion through Microfinance: Is it Possible?.
Chapter 9:
Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Income Inequalities: Are there
Co-movements?.
Chapter 10: Political Economy of microfinance from the gender
and politics point of view: As a way for enhancing social inclusion of women
to the workforce.
Chapter 11: Assessing the Impact of Microfinance on
Poverty and Inequality: A Study of 5 SAARC Nations using Causality Analysis.-
Chapter 12: Sustainability of Indian Microfinance Institutions after Andhra
Crisis: Evidences of Financial vis-à-vis Social Performance.
Chapter 13:
Role of Microfinance Institutions in Social Inclusion A Study with
Reference to India.
Chapter 14: Role of Microfinance in reduction of Poverty
in India.
Chapter 15: Predicting the Likelihood of Loan Default Among
Marginalized Population: A Case Study on Rural Bengal.
Chapter 16: Effects
of Financial widening Activities on Self-employment Opportunities in Nigeria:
Implication on Global recession and Social Exclusion.
Chapter 17: Accessing
Microfinance Potentiality Combating Global Recession through Local
Intervention.
Chapter 18: Assessing the Spatial-temporal Accessibility of
Micro-finance in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: A Geographical
Information System Analysis.
Chapter 19: Microfinance in South Asia and
SocialInclusion.
Chapter 20: Financial education vs university programs.
Ramesh Chandra Das is currently Professor of Economics at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He has contributed several research papers to national and international journals with high impacts along with completions of three minor research projects sponsored by the University Grants Commission, India.
