New savings from old innovations: Asset building for the less affluent

Financing Low-Income Communities: Models, Obstacles, and Future Directions

Volumn 9781610444811, Issue , 2007, Pages 13-71

  Schneider, Daniel ^a,b   Tufano, Peter ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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