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Microfinance is the best example of success in the kinds of systemic institutional areas.

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All my life I have worked to change concepts, and that begins with how people see and understand the problems.

Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher.

SEWA is now the largest union in India, with a membership of around 1.2 million women.

Systems are needed, for example for management, accounting, skill development and MIS to serve the needs of the working poor.

Women predominate in the lower strata of employment.

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