Collective Action and Community Development : Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India
In response to the problems of high coordination costs among the poor, efforts are underway in many countries to organize the poor through “self-help groups” (SHGs)—membership-based organizations that aim to promote social cohesion through a mixture of education, access to finance, and linkages to w...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24195 |