Building Financial Resilience

Do Credit and Finance Schemes Serve or Impoverish Vulnerable People?

AvJerry Buckland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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This book examines how credit and finance schemes affect the financial lives of vulnerable people around the world. These schemes include payday lending, matched savings, and financial literacy in the Global North, and micro-credit and mobile banking in the Global South.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-02-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:498 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319724188

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Jerry Buckland is Professor of International Development Studies at Menno Simons College, Canadian Mennonite University, Canada. His research and teaching areas include financial inclusion and empowerment, research and evaluation methods, community-based development, and rural and Indigenous Peoples’ development.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Financial Inclusion and Building Financial Resilience.- 3. New Areas of Commercial Banking Directed at Vulnerable People: Payday Lending and Mobile Banking.- 4. Financialization and Consumer Behaviour.- 5. Credit, Cash, Savings and Financial Literacy Delivered through Civil Society.- 6. The State: Regulating, Nudging, and Educating for Financial Inclusion.- 7. Conclusion.