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Raheem (economics, The New College (Autonomous), U. of Madras, India) details the different measures taken by the government of India to help empower women, especially the role of self-help groups, which bring together women with similar socioeconomic characteristics residing in the same area who meet for a common goal. He describes women in Indian society and the effects of globalization on them; issues and strategies for their economic, social, and political empowerment; aspects of the 2001 National Policy for Empowerment of Women; institutional mechanisms that aid in empowerment; and self-help groups, their functions, characteristics, models, emergence, and those based on micro credit. A case study of one group is provided in the appendix. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
