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Manuel, Clare --- "Levelling the legal playing field: What the law can and can’t do to improve women’s access to secured finance" [2015] ELECD 620; in Dahan, Frederique (ed), "Research Handbook on Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 132

Book Title: Research Handbook on Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions

Editor(s): Dahan, Frederique

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781001837

Section: Chapter 5

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

Author(s): Manuel, Clare

Number of pages: 33

Abstract/Description:

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.