
Overview
- 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 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Financial Resilience
Book Subtitle: Do Credit and Finance Schemes Serve or Impoverish Vulnerable People?
Authors: Jerry Buckland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72419-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72418-8Published: 28 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89180-4Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72419-5Published: 19 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 270
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Finance, Banking, International Finance