• Jenifer Trina.R
• Dr.N. Maria Navis Soris

Microfinance programs for women are increasingly seen by the development agencies as an effective anti-poverty intervention, financial inclusion and women empowerment tool with a positive impact on economic growth of a nation. High repayment rates are interpreted to mean that women are using loans for productive purpose, and use it for personal benefit. A trade-off between credit extension and recovery interprets that everything is fine with MFIs. It is widely assumed that there is a clear and direct relationship between access to credit and an increase in the status of women within their households and communities. The provision of adequate doses of micro finance in time to the women folk for their personal, familial and business purposes by a dependable agency would naturally generate confidence and zeal among them for the performance of their activities. Microfinance intervention (Constructed) which includes self-help group savings, loan, business activities and training; and women empowerment (Level of Empowerment) like social, economic, political, personal and family empowerment are the two variables which are taken in to account for this study.

Keywords: Microfinance intervention, Self-help group, Empowerment, Business activities, Loan, Savings

"IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE AND THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE WOMEN IN THOOTHUKUDI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.33-41, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807608.pdf

"IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE AND THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE WOMEN IN THOOTHUKUDI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp33-41, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807608.pdf