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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...
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forms of financial discrimination remained, though they were difficult to prove statistically. Instead of reducing the … residue of recalcitrant discrimination, regulators in the 1990s and 2000s instead lowered credit standards and thereby … discriminated against, which was the traditional way that Americans had reduced financial exclusion and discrimination before the …
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India's rural households continued to remain financially excluded prominently compared to urban households particularly with respect to their access to institutional credit. Nearly half (44%) of the credit requirements of rural households is still met through non-institutional sources of finance...
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statistical discrimination, and externalities from social networks). This essay discusses four additional mechanisms that bounded … rationality can explain: (i) implicit discrimination, (ii) self-stereotyping and self-censorship, (iii) ?fast thinking? adapted to …
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Negative attitudes toward groups in society are widespread and underpin systematic processes of social exclusion that marginalize people and deny them opportunities and dignity. This paper looks at the processes underlying social exclusion. It uses data covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia...
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A central hypothesis about discrimination is that prejudice forces the stigmatized into low paying, undesirable jobs … emerge. By contrast in competitive free markets, exclusionary discrimination often occurs but does not reduce workers' pay … discrimination is misguided: exclusion does not necessarily imply disadvantage; a shortfall in pay does not necessarily imply that …
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"However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed and marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, and/or...
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