Microfinance and poverty: Evidence using panel data from Bangladesh

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-286

  Khandker, Shahidur R ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROFINANCE; PANEL DATA; POVERTY ALLEVIATION;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 28044435787     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhi008     Document Type: Article

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