Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults
Open Access
- 16 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1) , 409
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-409
Abstract
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 on mental health have been largely ignored.Keywords
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