Individual development accounts and asset-building policy: Lessons and directions

Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking Among Low-Income Households

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 191-217

  Sherraden, Michael ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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