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Financial Inclusion : Critique and Alternatives

Rajiv Prabhakar brings together the typically exclusive views of supporters and critics to present a nuanced, critical analysis of 'financial inclusion'. Addressing issues including the 'poverty premium', financial capability and housing, this dialogue advances crucial public, ac...

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Autor principal: Prabhakar, Rajiv
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Financial Inclusion: Critique and Alternatives -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 What is financial inclusion? -- Introduction -- Background -- Financial Inclusion Policy Forum -- Lack of dialogue between the literatures -- What does financial inclusion mean? -- Why is financial inclusion important? -- Individual freedom -- Self-exclusion -- An example: reducing the unbanked -- Financialisation -- Subjects or agents? -- Financialisation and neoliberalism -- Structure of this book 
505 0 |a 2 Financial capability: citizens or subjects? -- Introduction -- What is financial capability? -- Financial capability and financial inclusion -- The capability approach -- Capability and freedom -- The capability approach and poverty -- Building financial capability -- Behavioural nudges -- An example: Save More Tomorrow -- Do behavioural nudges undermine freedom? -- Tensions between behavioural economics and activity -- Conclusion -- 3 Financial inclusion and saving -- Introduction -- Asset-based welfare -- IDAs -- Long-term saving: the CTF -- Discussion -- The Welsh government reforms 
505 0 |a Progressive universalism -- Constraints -- Financial inclusion -- Credit unions -- Automatic enrolment into a workplace pension in the UK -- Qualitative research -- Results -- Are people aware of AE? -- Why do people not opt out? -- Why do people opt out? -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 4 The case of housing -- Introduction -- Privatised Keynesianism -- Asset-based welfare and housing -- Developing a different model of housing -- An example: millennial angst -- Conclusion -- 5 Alternatives -- Introduction -- Universal basic income -- Basic income and basic capital 
505 0 |a The financial system and basic income or basic capital -- Universal basic services -- A needs-based rationale for universal basic services -- Combining universal basic services and universal basic income -- The practicality of alternatives: the case of taxing wealth -- Background -- The tyranny of the status quo -- The 2005 CT revaluation in Wales -- Effects of the 2005 revaluation -- Reaction to the 2005 revaluation -- Failed CT revaluation in 2015 -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- Introduction -- What can critics learn from the supporters of financial inclusion? 
505 0 |a The case of financial education in schools -- Financial education in England -- Financial education in Wales -- Financial education in Scotland -- Financial education in Northern Ireland -- Creating investor-subjects? -- Further areas of research -- Financial technology -- The responsible corporation -- COVID-19 and future research -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Back Cover 
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