Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Transformation

Dr. Srimoyee Datta is presently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Business Administration, Sidho Kanho Birsha University. She has over 17 years of academic experience in various institutes. She has been awarded Ph.D. from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. She has published various research articles in various reputed national and international journals published by reputed publishers.Dr. Tarak Nath Sahu is currently working as an Associate Professor of Commerce and Head, Department of Business Administration, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore. He has over 16 years of postgraduate teaching and research experience in the field of finance and financial economics. Dr. Sahu, a gold medalist at both graduate and post-graduate levels, has authored five books and edited ten books. He has published more than hundred fifty research articles in reputed national and international journals.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Financial inclusion, microfinance institutions and women empowerment: overview and literatures.- Chapter 3: Perception of borrowers and non-borrowers towards mfis.- Chapter 4: Credit utilization pattern of the borrowers.- Chapter 5: Microfinance and employability.- Chapter 6: Performance analysis of the active mfis.- Chapter 7: Role of mfis towards empowering the women.- Chapter 8: Identification of determinants influencing the economic, psychological and social empowerment of the female borrowers.- Chapter 9: Summary and conclusion.