Small is beautiful, but big is often the practice: Housing microfinance in discussion

Habitat International

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 595-613

  Smets, Peer ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community based finance; Housing; Housing finance; Microfinance

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; MICROFINANCE;

EID: 33744989024     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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