The micro-credit programmes focus on organisation of the rural poor at the grassroots level through a process of social mobilization. It enables the poor build their own organisations (SHGs) consisting of 10-20 persons, in which they participate fully and directly and take decisions on all issues concerning poverty eradication. Micro-finance can be a powerful tool in initiating a cyclical proce...

Most analyses of randomized controlled trials development interventions estimate an average treatment effect on the outcome interest. However, aggregate impact welfare also depends distributional effects. We propose a simple method to evaluate efficiency–equity trade-offs in utilitarian tradition Atkinson (1970). This involves estimation monotone concave function variable, whose curvature captu...