Credit and Social Capital: The Community Development Potential of U.S. Microenterprise Programs

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-149

  Servon, Lisa J ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Credit; Development revitalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010815423     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.1998.9521288     Document Type: Article

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