Microfinancing the developing world: How small loans empower local economies and catalyse neoliberalism's endgame

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1081-1090

  Campbell, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCIAL PROVISION; INTEREST RATE; LENDING BEHAVIOR; LOCAL ECONOMY; MICROFINANCE; NEOLIBERALISM; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 78649464264     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2010.518785     Document Type: Article

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