Chapter 1: Structural Transformation of Rural Finance in India: A Critical Review -- Chapter 2: Risk Taking Behaviour in Financial Decision Making: A Village Level Study -- Chapter 3: Impacts of Caste, Risk, and Time Preference on Borrowing Behavior: A Case Study in West Bengal, India -- Chapter 4: Microfinance and Rural Entrepreneurship: An Assessment -- Chapter 5: SHGs for Poverty Alleviation? Perspectives from a Tamil Nadu Village under Rapid Economic Development -- Chapter 6: Achievements and Challenges of SHG-Bank Linkage Program in India: The Result of Village Surveys in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra -- Chapter 7: Synergistic Effects of microfinance through SHGs: A Study of basic Health and Primary Education indicators -- Chapter 8: For a Better World: Livelihood Security Measurement of the SHG Members -- Chapter 9: Public Spending and Rural Livelihood in India: A Study of MGNREGA -- Chapter 01: Factual Achievement of MGNREGA: Calls for an Optimal Planning using Fuzzy Logic