Banking on the poor : savings, poverty and access to financial services in rural South Africa

Microfinance has gained prominence as a policy option for addressing poverty. Although microfinance has a long history, its growing appeal is usually associated with the attention given to the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, which pioneered group-based lending to poor women. Following the ‘successes of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dallimore, Anthea
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579454