Social capital and cross- cultural model replication: The case of Hand in Hand in India and South Africa

Contemporary Microenterprise: Concepts and Cases

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 221-233

  Lerpold, Lin ^a   Romani, Laurence ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

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EID: 84881878873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781849808040.00022     Document Type: Chapter

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