The Economics of Roscas and Intra-Household Resource Allocation
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- 1 January 2000
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper investigates individual motives to participate in rotating savings and credit associations (roscas). Detailed evidence from roscas in a Kenyan slum (Keywords
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