Assets and educational outcomes: Child Development Accounts (CDAs) for orphaned children in Uganda

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1585-1590

  Curley, Jami ^a   Ssewamala, Fred ^b   Han, Chang Keun ^c  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Africa; Assets; CDAs; Child development accounts; Education; HIV AIDs; Matched savings accounts; Orphans; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956423756     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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