From microcredit to microinsurance: Creating social security where there is none

Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 142-154

  Amenomori, Takayoshi ^a  

^a NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84916995833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203874097     Document Type: Chapter

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