Building greater access to financial services for the poor is one of the most powerful ways in the process of eradication of poverty.
Economists have long argued that providing a complete set of financial services to the poor would go a long way in releasing them from clutches of poverty.
The Self-Help Group (SHG) model, organized around an informal set of norms of mutuality and trust, was the earliest institutional form of micro-finance in the country.
This study is an investigation into the economic empowerment and social empowerment of women through self-help groups in Goa.
