Credit Markets for the Poor Patrick Bolton and Howard Rosenthal, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenthal, Howard, 1939-

Bolton, Patrick, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Credit control.

Commercial loans.

Poor.

Credit.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Access to credit is an important means of providing people with the opportunity to make a better life for themselves.Loans are essential for most people who want to purchase a home, start a business, pay for college, or weather a spell of unemployment.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: Credit and Banking Services and the Fringe; Chapter 2: Fringe Banking and the Rise of Payday Lending; Chapter 3: Online Banking and the Poor; Part II: Borrowing with Collateral: Legal Institutions and Default; Chapter 4: Mortgage Debt, Bankruptcy, and the Sustainability of Homeownership; Chapter 5: Legal Institutions, Credit Markets, and Poverty in Italy; Part III: Small Business Loans: Borrowing Together or Borrowing Alone?; Chapter 6: Financing Disadvantaged Firms

Chapter 7: Networks and Finance in Ethnic NeighborhoodsChapter 8: Microcredit Repayment Insurance: Better for the Poor, Better for the Institution; Chapter 9: Can Microcredit Reduce Poverty? The Effect of the Loan Contract on Loan Size; Part IV: Inequality and Credit Markets; Chapter 10: Inequality and Credit Markets:An Introduction to Political Economy Perspectives; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-61044-075-7

OCLC:

967588007