About the Book :

This book attempts an overview of varied dimensions, constraints and best practices related to Rural Microfinance and Micro-enterprise, alongwith indepth papers on some key/emerging focus areas by erudite development practitioners scholars. The book strives to work-out the modalities of a flexible multi-pronged strategy for discovering the pathway towards 'formalization' of Informal Sector finance and enterprise in the difficult rural domain of the developing world, amidst heterogeneity of options. This is a pioneering venture in considering microfinance and micro-enterprise as a continuum with integral and logical linkages. This high quality knowledge management Ready Referencer will be useful to all stakeholders/actors in the development arena policy makers, microfinance/micro-enterprise field professionals, grassroots workers, activists, scholars and researchers of various institutions involved in Rural Management and Development.

About Author :

Amitabh Bhatnagar is a development analyst and communicator, interested in-Rural Development/livelihoods generation/microfinance & microenterprise promotion/Human Resource & Institutional development/Project management/cross-cutting concerns-currently focused on convergent knowledge management initiatives to optimize the utilization of the global knowledge heritage/learnings in development interventions. He recently edited the critically acclaimed two volume Sage & Sound Recipes: Successful Experiments in Rural Development/Livelihoods.