For compassion or money? The factors influencing the funding of micro loans

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 831-835

  Heller, Lauren R ^a   Badding, Kayla D ^a  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Kiva; Lending; Microfinance; Preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871717421     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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