Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 843-859

  Hazarika, Gautam ^a   Sarangi, Sudipta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; child labor; Malawi; microcredit

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; CREDIT PROVISION; MICROFINANCE; PROBABILITY; RETAILING;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 41749091345     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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