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A fragile balance : emergency savings and liquid resources for low-income consumers / edited by J. Collins.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Financial services industry.
- Finance, Public.
- Management.
- Business.
- Management science.
- Financial Services.
- Public Finance.
- Business and Management.
- Local Subjects:
- Financial Services.
- Public Finance.
- Management.
- Business and Management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Fragile Balance examines strategies to promote emergency savings, especially among underserved households. Each chapter is by an expert contributor and proposes an innovative financial product or service designed to bolster emergency savings among low-asset families. This collection also offers readers insights into the role of emergency savings and mechanisms to facilitate savings behaviors, and raises critical questions of the scale, institutional capacity, sustainability, accessibility, and effectiveness of existing programs.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349503988
- 1349503983
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