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Levelling the legal playing field: What the law can and can’t do to improve women’s access to secured finance

In: Research Handbook on Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions

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  • Clare Manuel

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In general, it is harder for businesswomen to access finance, and in particular secured finance, than it is for businessmen. The problem is especially acute in developing countries, where women entrepreneurs can have a key role in lifting themselves and their families out of poverty. This chapter: provides an overview of what we know about women’s access to secured finance internationally; considers how the formal law can help or hinder women’s access to secured finance, focusing on family law, land titling law, and secured transactions law; looks at how contrasting family law regimes impact on women’s ability to access credit on the ground in Morocco and the Kyrgyz Republic – countries with very different economies, cultural contexts and legal systems; and ends with some suggestions for policy- and law-makers aiming to improve access to secured finance for women.

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  • Clare Manuel, 2015. "Levelling the legal playing field: What the law can and can’t do to improve women’s access to secured finance," Chapters, in: Frederique Dahan (ed.), Research Handbook on Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions, chapter 5, pages 132-164, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:14776_5
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