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标题：Micro Finance and Women Empowerment: Does Self Help Group Empowers Women?
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作者：Sanjay Kanti Das
期刊名称：International Journal of Management and Business Studies
印刷版ISSN：2231-2463
电子版ISSN：2230-9519
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：Cosmic Journals
摘要：Self Hel p Grou ps (SHGs) have served the cause of wo men empowerment, social solidarity and socio-economic betterment of the poor for their consolidation. A good number of researchers including MFIs claimed that this movement helped in alleviating poverty and empowering women in particular. The methodology of research for preparation of this paper may be categorized into two parts viz. methodology applied for descriptive analysis about SHGs and methodology applied for its impact assessment in case of women empowerment. The first one is the theoretical part whereas the second is of practical part. The study is restricted to only three districts of Assam (better known as Barak Valley). In this paper, an effort is made to analyse the meaning of the term 'empowerment'-its different concepts, issues and indicators. Further, efforts are also taken to examine the influence of membership of SHGs and gender inequality, to access the involvement of SHG member in decision mak ing in the family and to study membership of SHGs and improvement of women position in the patriarchal family system in the study area and finally, to study the relation of SHG members and development of leadership qualities. It is observed from the study that impact on decision making pattern i.e. participation ranks first followed by power element i.e. economic empowerment. Building of awareness and cap acity ranks the third while the Indicators of 'Entitlement' ranks fourth and so on. Therefore it is obvious that SHG have a positive impact on women members particularly in empowering them. In fine Self Help Groups is undoubtedly consid ered as an empowerment model
关键词：Self Hel p Grou ps; Empo werment Mo del; Micro Finance ;Institutions; Empowerment Variables; Social Empowerment