Socio-Economic Impacts of JEEViKA: A Large-Scale Self-Help Group Project in Bihar, India

Upamanyu Datta

World Development, 2015, vol. 68, issue C, 1-18

Abstract: Policymakers have invested billions of dollars over the past two decades on projects which target poverty reduction by institutional mobilization of the poor. Unfortunately, evidence on the efficacy of such projects is few and far between; this is an outcome of the complexity of these projects.

Keywords: self-help groups; community-driven development; propensity score matching; women’s empowerment; debt portfolio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.013

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