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"Contents: Part 1: Microfinance: an overview -- A financial system for India's poor / Priya Babu -- Microfinance revised / K.G. Karmakar -- Part 2: Microfinance institutions (MFIs) -- MFIs in India: an overview / K.Muralidhara Rao -- Regulatory framework for MFIs / Krishnan Jindal -- Promoting linkages between banks and MFIs / P.Satish -- Sustainability of MFIs / Vijay Mahajan -- Part 3: SHG-Bank linkage programme -- SHG-Bank linkage programme: progress and prospects / Sukhbir Singh -- SHGs and savings mobilization / H.R. Dave -- Livelihood promotion among SHGs / Pradeep Kashyap -- Emerging SHG federations and challenges / C.S. Reddy -- Sustainability of SHGs / N.Srinivasan -- Impact of SGSY on SHG: Bank linkages / Thanksy Francis Thekkekara -- Part 4: Successful MFI models -- Why sanghamitra is different? / Aloysius P. Fernandez -- Beyond microcredit: building nested institutions of savings and credit groups in India- The Kalanjiam Experience / K.Narender -- Banking with poor self-employed women / Jayshree Vyas -- Good practices in SHG book-keeping: three case studies / Jan Meissner, Ramakrishna and Marie Luise Haberberger -- Attaining outreach and viability: case study of Bandhan / A.K. Parhi -- Part 5: Successful bank models -- Pandyan Grama Bank SHG linkage model / S.Manickam -- Prathama Bank: Farmers club model / L.R. Ramachandran -- Bidar DCCB-PACS model / B.B. Mohanty -- Chandrapur DCCB-Anganwadi model: A case study / S. Santhanam -- Part 6: Innovation for growth -- Role of technology as a growth catalyst in the microfinance sector / Niket Kamdar and Puneet Gupta -- Leveraging mutual guarantees for gaining financial access: joint liability groups as collateral substitutes / B.S. Suran -- The 'credit plus' approach for Tribal development / K.G. Karmakar and N.P.Mohapatra."