Building Financial Resilience
Do Credit and Finance Schemes Serve or Impoverish Vulnerable People?
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Beschreibung
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. Buckland sets these schemes within the context of financialization and seeks to identify strengths, weaknesses, and ways to enhance the well-being of vulnerable people. This book’s coverage of a wide range of financial products and geographic regions makes for a unique and innovative perspective on this topic. It presents a balanced critique of credit and finance schemes under the assumption that reform is the most practical means to improve human well-being.
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. Buckland sets these schemes within the context of financialization and seeks to identify strengths, weaknesses, and ways to enhance the well-being of vulnerable people. This book’s coverage of a wide range of financial products and geographic regions makes for a unique and innovative perspective on this topic. It presents a balanced critique of credit and finance schemes under the assumption that reform is the most practical means to improve human well-being.
Examines a wide selection of credit and finance schemes affecting vulnerable people around the world, encompassing the global North and global South Draws on a novel combination of a new theory of financialization with well-accepted theories of human development Presents a pragmatic analysis and a balanced critique of finance and credit products drawing on recent literature and providing case studies of payday lending and mobile banking Features a foreword by Elaine Kempson
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Jerry Buckland
Themen in »Building Financial Resilience«
Global north Global south credit and finance schemes financialization Global capital Microfinance Mobile banking payday lending matched savings financial literacy micro-credit banking