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This chapter introduces the book and gives an overall concept of the whole work. Here the authors have portrayed a brief introduction followed by the background of the work, motivation and objective of the study. The chapter also states the scope of the study along with chapter plan.

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Datta, S., Sahu, T.N. (2023). Introduction. In: Financial Inclusion and Livelihood Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4141-4_1

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