The social unit of debt : Gender and creditworthiness in Paraguayan microfinance

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Schuster, Caroline

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American Anthropological Association

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Paraguayan microcredit poverty-alleviation programs are built around instrumentalizing women's economic ties through group-based loans guaranteed by no more than the promise of women's solidarity and joint liability for their collective loan repayment. I

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American Ethnologist

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2037-12-31