Gender empowerment in microfinance

Microfinance: Emerging Trends and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 108-121

  Armendáriz, Beatriz ^a   Roome, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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