Table of Contents

Indian Economy: An Overview; Poverty in India: Concept, Causes & Incidence; Financial System & Regulators in India; Financial Inclusion: Conceptual Framework; Recent Financial Inclusion Measures in India; Rural Credit Co-operatives; Regional Rural Banks (RRBs); Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs); Micro Finance & Self-help Groups (SHGs); Mutual Funds; Pension Funds; Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), 2014; Role of Technology in Financial Inclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Dr. N. Mani is presently Head, Post-graduate and Research Department of Economics, Erode Arts and Science College, Erode, Tamil Nadu. He holds M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Specializing in development economics, he has 23 years of teaching experience to post-graduate and undergraduate classes. He successfully completed a major research project sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi. He is currently engaged in a research project sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. Dr. Mani has published five books and several papers in reputed journals on varied subjects. He is also the President of Tamil Nadu Science Forum and was organizing secretary of the National Children Science Congress, 2006. He has successfully guided and supervised the works of 6 Ph.D. and 14 M.Phil. scholars. He is a member of various academic bodies including Indian Society of Labour Economics and Indian Society of Agricultural Economics.