Credit matters: Building assets in a dual financial service system

Building Assets, Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 10-41

  Belsky, Eric S ^a   Calder, Allegra ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

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