Predatory Lending Goes Global: Consumer Protection in a Deregulation Network Economy

Why the Poor Pay More: How to Stop Predatory Lending

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 185-202

  Lee, Matthew ^a  

^a Inner City Press Community   (United States)

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