Self-Help Groups as Vehicles of Women’s Empowerment in Urban India: Evidence from 300 SHG Members in Jaipur Metropolitan City, Rajasthan
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the principal institutional device through which Indian development policy attempts to convert poor women’s collective savings into economic capability and social voice. The empirical literature on SHGs is substantial but overwhelmingly rural; the urban SHG, operating amid casual work, rente...