Building Financial Resilience

Jerry Buckland is Professor of International Development Studies at Menno Simons College, Canadian Mennonite University, Canada. His research and teaching areas include financial inclusion and empowerment, research and evaluation methods, community-based development, and rural and Indigenous Peoples’ development.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Financial Inclusion and Building Financial Resilience.- 3. New Areas of Commercial Banking Directed at Vulnerable People: Payday Lending and Mobile Banking.- 4. Financialization and Consumer Behaviour.- 5. Credit, Cash, Savings and Financial Literacy Delivered through Civil Society.- 6. The State: Regulating, Nudging, and Educating for Financial Inclusion.-  7. Conclusion.