FR Doornaert, Julie 2013-06-30 Programme Grande Ecole In emerging countries such as India, severe poverty still remains while the economy is developing rapidly. Strategies were designed to provide the necessary financial assistance to help its eradication. This paper describes three of the main schemes used in India in order to alleviate poverty and to act on its main correlated issue: women empowerment. These schemes, micro-credit, bottom-of-the-pyramid and social entrepreneurship originally hailed as most efficient modern means of enabling the poor to climb out of poverty, have come in for criticisms: micro-credit being blamed for leading people into an uncompromising debt market, BoP for being used as an ideological base for globalization and social entrepreneurship for the dilemma of its double objectives, make money and do social good at the same time. This article collects literature in order to answer the question of the validity of these schemes. PDF Accès réservé aux membres de l'Université de Strasbourg sur authentification https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/restreint/memoires/2013/EMS/2013_PGE_doornaert_julie.pdf en École de Management Strasbourg http://www.sudoc.fr/24324570X Microfinance Inde Femmes pauvres Inde Autonomisation Inde Responsabilité sociétale Inde bottom of the pyramid; caste system; gender; India; innovation; microcredit; micro-enterprise; micro-finance; micro-finance institution; multinational companies; poverty alleviation; poverty reduction; self-employment; SHG; Self Help Groups; SHG-bank linkage; social enterprise; social entrepreneurship; social venture; women; women empowerment; système de caste; Inde; innovation; micro-crédit; micro-entreprise; micro-finance, institution micro-financière, compagnies multinational; réduction de la pauvreté; travail indépendant; entreprise sociale; entrepreneuriat social; groupement social; femmes; amélioration de la situation de la femme 650 Development of Innovation and entrepreneurship in India:Role of micro-credit on poverty alleviation and on women status improvement Mémoire de Master Gilles Lambert Memoire Unistra