Titolo Social and Financial Exclusion: The Role of Microfinance Periodico Rivista italiana degli economisti Anno: 2013 - Volume: 54 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 293 - Pagina finale: 298
Traditional banks have proved to have severe limits in mitigating financial exclusion. The microfinancerevolution is intended to address this problem by devising new approaches which ease credit accessfor poor and uncollateralized borrowers. In this introductory essay we present a special issue of theRivista Italiana degli Economisti on the role of microfinance in alleviating social and financial exclusion.