Informal social support networks and household vulnerability: empirical findings from Georgia

World Development

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1827-1838

  Dershem, Larry ^a   Gzirishvili, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b CURATIO INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; SOCIAL NETWORK; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

GEORGIA;

EID: 0032421450     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(98)00085-0     Document Type: Article

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