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Banking the Unbanked: Innovative Business Models Championing the Financial Inclusion of Latin America’s MoP
Ch. 6. P. 157–192.
Eileen D., Ljubica J.
Editor of translation: C. Alvaro, M. Miguel
In this chapter, we present business opportunities emerging from the problems faced by the large number of the unbanked in the middle-income population of LAC. We continue by elaborating the challenges facing companies tackling these opportunities, and we provide a series of case studies presenting innovative solutions used by successful companies as solutions to these challenges. We complete the chapter by providing constructive conclusions and recommendations for practitioners, with emphasis on the opportunity in attending to the unbanked, who lack access to credit to make the purchases they aspire to and need but don’t have the means.
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Ljubica J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Prosvirkina E. Y., Bert W., Journal of East-West Business 2021 Vol. 27 No. 3 P. 291–309
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