Finance and poor people's livelihoods

Finance and Development: Surveys of Theory, Evidence and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 277-303

  Johnson, Susan ^a   Hulme, David ^b   Ruthven, Orlanda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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