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Citizenship, Super-inclusion and Consumer Credit Policy in Kuwait

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2014

DAWN BURTON
DAWN BURTON*
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Abstract

This paper focuses on policies of credit inclusion in Kuwait as a way of unravelling the complex relationship between citizenship, social policy, and credit. Kuwaiti citizens enjoy the status of super-inclusion but expatriates suffer from exclusion. Super-inclusion for Kuwaiti citizens reaches beyond access to credit and includes its distribution, methods of dealing with default and the repayment of debt. In the post-Arab Spring period, the gap has widened between these two groups within the population as citizens attempt to secure a greater share of the country's financial resources in exchange for social peace.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 25 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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