Informal Financial Service Institutions for Survival: African Women and Stokvels in Urban South Africa, 1930–1998

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 259-296

  Verhoef, Grietjie ^a  

^a NONE   (South Africa)

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EID: 85010670225     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/es/2.2.259     Document Type: Article

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