Microcredit: What can we learn from the past?

World Development

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1875-1891

  Hollis, Aidan ^a   Sweetman, Arthur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Europe; Germany; Institutions; Italy; Microcredit; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MICROFINANCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032438505     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(98)00082-5     Document Type: Article

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