This book examines how credit and finance schemes affect the financial lives of vulnerable people around the world. These schemes include payday lending, matched savings, and financial literacy in the Global North, and micro-credit and mobile banking in the Global South. Buckland sets these...

Businesses in Canada invest billions of dollars to foster innovation and efficiency and some of these funds support training to improve communications between managers and staff that can enable this process. This paper reports on an evaluation of a professional communications training program...

Mobile banking places a wide set of financial services – transferring money for savings, investment, paying bills, to relatives – into the palm of a person's hand. Mobile money transfers have rapidly grown in Kenya, Tanzania, the Philippines, and is set to grow rapidly in Bangladesh in the...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theories and Evidence of Financial Vulnerability -- Chapter 3: Building a Financial Vulnerability Model -- Chapter 4: Socio-Cultural and Economic Institutions at the Local Level -- Chapter 5: The Household as Financial Manager -- Chapter 6: Markets and...