A New Financial Access Frontier: Persons With Disabilities
July 28, 2010 in Special Needs News by Admin Dawn
Can a person with a disability living in a developing country become the valued client of a financial institution? According to Harvard Law professor Michael Stein, 650 million people around the world, nearly 10 percent of humanity, have a disability, and over 80 percent of these people live in developing countries. Yet, in research studies, fewer than 1 percent of the clients of microfinance institutions, dedicated to serving the world’s financially excluded people, were found to be persons with disabilities. One of the last great human rights struggles is only now starting to penetrate the world of low-income finance.
But how best to make progress in disability inclusion?
read more at Elisabeth Rhyne: A New Financial Access Frontier: Persons With Disabilities.
