Challenges to mutual aid: The microinsurance response

Grassroots Social Security in Asia: Mutual Aid, Microinsurance and Social Welfare

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-43

  Midgley, James ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

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