Integrating saving into microenterprise programs for the poor: Do institutions matter?

Social Service Review

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 404-428

  Ssewamala, Fred M ^a   Sherraden, Michael ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

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EID: 8644272423     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421919     Document Type: Article

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