Secured transactions reform and access to credit / edited by Frederique Dahan and John Simpson.

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : Edward Elgar, c2008.

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Security (Law)

Law reform.

Credit.

Part 1. Access to credit and secured transactions in a global world

1 Turning the key to credit: credit access and credit institutions

2. Policy choices for an efficient and inclusive financial system

Part 2. Secured transactions law to support access to credit: a case for reform

3. The economics of collateral and of collateral reform

4. Firm-level evidence on collateral and access to finance

5. Legal effiency of secured transactions reform: bridging the gap between economic analysis and legal reasoning

Part 3. Taking security in practice: microfinance and mortgage

6. The state of nature and lending in an unreformed environment: experience from early transition countries

7. Use of security in challenging environments: the microfinance perspective

8. Mortgages in transition economies

Part 4. Stories of reform: lessons learned and remaining challenges

9. The Slovak secured transactions reform: ingredients of a successful reform and reflection on its achievements

10. The Romanian electronic archive of security interests in personal property

11. Challenges in implementing secured transactions reform in Latin America

12. Recent reform in France: the renaissance of a civilian collateral regime.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781847205988

x, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm