FDI or foreign direct investment is the investments brought into productions and economy of a country by people of another country. USA was the world’s largest recipient of FDI totaling $194 billion in 2010 after which in line was China with $185 billion in 2010 and India in 2010 was $44.8 billion (Greyhill Advisors). No doubt FDI have helped a lot of industrial fields to excel and dominate than the others. Read more »
Drawbacks and benefits of increasing FDI in retail in India
Background of India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited
IIFC group was established with the motive to develop the company economy under the leadership of Dr. Rakesh Mohan in 1994. The group is intended to carry a review process on long term funds made available to maintain the infrastructure products efficiently. Read more »
Different types of E-commerce
E-commerce can be classified into five different types. They are (i) business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce, (ii) business to business (B2B) e-commerce, (iii) consumer to consumer (C2C) e-commerce, (iv) peer to peer (P2P) e-commerce and (v) M-commerce (Thanasankit, 2003). Read more »
Empowering women through micro-finance
Micro-finance is the provision of a broad range of financial services such as deposits, loans, payment services, money transfers, and insurance to poor and low-income households. A majority of the microfinance programmes target women with the explicit goal of reducing poverty and empowering them. Read more »
Neoclassical approaches to household decision making
The traditional neoclassical economic approaches to household decision making leaves no room for analyzing conflict between men and women. Read more »
Microfinance as a tool to initiate women’s empowerment
International aid and development work related to addressing poverty often focuses on the issue of empowerment. Empowerment is most commonly thought of in economic and political terms. The world Bank (2002), for example, defines empowerment as “the expansion of assets and abilities of poor people to participate in, negotiate with, influence, control and hold accountable institution that affect their lives” (p. 14). Read more »
Importance of microfinance
Research from across the world today suggests that inclusive and developed financial systems are related to better income distribution and faster economic growth. Read more »


