Institutions and inclusion in saving policy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 286-315

  Sherraden, Michael ^a   Barr, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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