Building Financial Resilience Do Credit and Finance Schemes Serve or Impoverish Vulnerable People? /

• Main Author: Buckland, Jerry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Finance, Public.; Banks and banking.; International finance.; Public Finance.; Banking.; International Finance.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .