Loans and Leaving: Migration and the Expansion of Microcredit in Cambodia

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 687-708

  Bylander, Maryann ^a   Hamilton, Erin R ^b  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Credit; Debt; Microfinance; Migration; New economics of labor migration

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; DEBT; ECONOMICS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LABOR MIGRATION; MICROFINANCE; RURAL AREA;

CAMBODIA;

EID: 84941418043     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-015-9367-8     Document Type: Article

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