Empowering Rural Women
Author | : Kiron Wadhera |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-12-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 813210692X |
ISBN-13 | : 9788132106920 |
Rating | : 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Rural Women's Road to Empowerment provides original research on poor, rural women micro-entrepreneurs, whose achievement-motivation has been rigorously measured. This pioneering study establishes a clear relationship between presence/absence of achievement-motivation and the success/failure of these women in sustaining their enterprises. Authors Kiron Wadhera and George Koreth also describe in detail a replicable and scalable "cash-less" material loan model developed by the NGO Asian Centre for Organisation Research and Development (ACORD) for rural women micro-entrepreneurs, which can be used effectively to solve some of the problems related to rural backwardness.