Credit Cooperatives in India: Past, Present and Future

ISBN-13: 9780415566995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Biswa Swarup Misra

Opis

The book deals with the traditional banking system in a developing economy and its evolution over time. Although this sector has grown along with the micro-credit sector to provide finance for the poor and the less creditworthy borrowers, financing development still remains a major problem in the developing world. This book provides a valuable case study of the role of cooperatives in India.

Cooperatives in India make up one of the largest rural financial systems in the world. Providing first an analysis of the historical evolution of cooperatives in India, the book moves on to establish the link between different segments of this institutional system and their performance in a commercial sense. It shows that cooperatives occupy an important place in India’s financial edifice as they play a key role in the multi-agency framework for rural credit delivery. However, the financial health of credit cooperatives in India has been a matter of perennial concern. The author argues that cooperatives hold great promise for financial inclusion if the financial position of the cooperatives can be consolidated.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Evolution of Credit Cooperatives in India  3. Revitalising Primary Credit Cooperative in India  4. District Central Cooperative Banks: Reorienting the Middle Tier in the Cooperative Edifice of India  5. The Role of State Cooperative Banks in the Indian Cooperative Structure  6. Interdependence in the Cooperative Credit Structure in India  7. Impact Analysis of Credit Extended by Cooperatives  8. Redesigning the Cooperative Edifice in India

O autorze

Biswa Swarup Misra is Associate Professor of Economics at the Xavier Institute of Management in Bhubaneswar, India. He was previously a Research Officer at the Reserve Bank of India (Department of Economic Analysis and Policy) and Economist for the Union Bank of India.