Micro-Credit and Entrepreneurship Development : A Study of Inter-District Variance

The importance of micro-credit and micro-entrepreneurship cannot be disowned in labour-surplus country like India vis-a-vis in state of Odisha where poverty and employment crisis have taken a volcanic shape, and created multiple problems both in socio-economic and socio-political lives. The informal sector, in the form of micro-enterprises, so long having deep attachment with rural economy has now become integral part of the economy of the state and the country due to overall change in economic scenario of the country. Odisha is no exception to it. So also the impact is widely diverged. The present research intents to assort the inter-district variances in the impacts of the highly successful micro-credit programmes on developing micro-entrepreneurship.