Challenges and Opportunities for Agrarian Transformation and Development of Agribusinesses in Fiji

Kumar, Sunil; Bhati, Jagdish P.

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“…SHGs have become one of the policy initiatives for many governmental, non‐governmental and international institutions primarily in the global south to empower local communities beyond its financial goal (Desai & Joshi, 2014; Mansuri & Rao, 2013), as they enhance collective actions (Kumar et al, 2019; Mosedale, 2005; Sanyal, 2009, 2014) and health outcomes (Mehta et al, 2020; Saha et al, 2015). Policy makers and health administrators increasingly leverage the organizational platform of SHGs as an intervention tool, for instance, to sustain livelihood developments such as India's National Rural Livelihoods Mission (Kumar, 2010; Mishra, 2017; Pandey & Gupta, 2022; Reserve Bank of India, 2022) and to implement public health programs (Bali Swain & Varghese, 2013; Husain & Dutta, 2022; Ruducha et al, 2018, 2019).…”

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Expansion, cohesion and diversity: The network advantages of microfinance groups in Indian villages

Lee,

Singh

2023

J of Intl Development

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Social network approaches on microfinance self‐help groups (SHGs) find that their organizational capacity lies in network expansion—a social capital basis for various policy interventions through SHGs. To what extent do SHGs create connections in and out of the group boundaries in the caste‐ and gender‐segregated India? This study adds group cohesion and contact diversity as potential network advantages and fully assesses the relationship‐spanning structure of SHGs in India. Modelling network structures in 71 villages in the Diffusion of Microfinance dataset, we identify SHGs' community bonding as well as bridging capacities through the simultaneously expanded and cohesive helpful exchange ties. However, SHG members' exchange ties are more caste‐ and gender‐homogeneous, suggesting that SHGs bond rather than bridge individuals across these salient socio‐demographic groups. We develop a policy imperative to promote mixing based on the socio‐demographic composition when aggregating individual SHGs into higher‐level units.

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