Paying back comes first: Why repayment means more than business in rural Senegal

Gender and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 243-254

  Duffy Tumasz, Amelia ^a  

^a West Africa for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS)   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Development; Evaluation research; Gender; Micro finance; Senegal

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349805122     PISSN: 13552074     EISSN: 13649221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13552070903009668     Document Type: Article

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