Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults
Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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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 access to credit on traditional economic outcomes for poor borrowers, but effects o...
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Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults
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1471-2458
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1471-2458
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10.1186/1471-2458-8-409
