A Fragile Balance Emergency Savings and Liquid Resources for Low-Income Consumers
Description
A Fragile Balance examines strategies to promote emergency savings, especially among underserved households. Each chapter is by an expert contributor and proposes an innovative financial product or service designed to bolster emergency savings among low-asset families. This collection also offers readers insights into the role of emergency savings and mechanisms to facilitate savings behaviors, and raises critical questions of the scale, institutional capacity, sustainability, accessibility, and effectiveness of existing programs.
Keywords
Business & EconomicsIndustriesFinancial ServicesPublic FinanceManagementManagement Science
2015Book
Author(s)J. Michael Collins
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137487810
LanguageEnglish
