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Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults
BACKGROUND: In the developing world, access to small, individual loans has been variously hailed as a poverty-alleviation tool – in the context of "microcredit" – but has also been criticized as "usury" and harmful to vulnerable borrowers. Prior studies have assessed effects of a...
Autores principales: | Fernald, Lia CH, Hamad, Rita, Karlan, Dean, Ozer, Emily J, Zinman, Jonathan |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19087316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-409 |
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