Social and Financial Exclusion: The Role of Microfinance
Posted: 18 Dec 2013
Date Written: December 2013
Abstract
Traditional banks have proved to have severe limits in mitigating financial exclusion. The microfinance revolution is intended to address this problem by devising new approaches which ease credit access for poor and uncollateralized borrowers. In this introductory essay we present a special issue of the Rivista Italiana degli Economisti on the role of microfinance in alleviating social and financial exclusion.
Keywords: Microfinance, social exclusion, financial exclusion
JEL Classification: G21, I30
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Becchetti, Leonardo and Boot, Arnoud W. A. and Lensink, Robert and Zazzaro, Alberto, Social and Financial Exclusion: The Role of Microfinance (December 2013). Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Vol. 3, December 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2368790
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