Financial services for the poor: Assessing microfinance institutions

Managerial Finance

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 70-95

  Koveos, Peter ^a   Randhawa, Dipinder ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Financial advice; Financial risk; Management techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651466001     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350410769281     Document Type: Article

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