Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D11239
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Online from the Social Sciences Research Network., Literature review, observations, and recommendations involving the effectiveness of self help groups of rural women for empowering them in terms of thrift and financial management. Case studies indicate the impact of credit availability.
Address reviews the theories and misconceptions which have provided the intellectual and idealogical underpinning of misguided agricultural and rural development policies. It then discusses major misguided policies which were supported by these intellectual traditions which have been shown to reduce agricultural growth and harm the welfare of the rural poor.
