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

Clare Manuel

Chapter 5 in Research Handbook on Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions, 2015, pp 132-164 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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