Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults

• Main Authors: Karlan Dean (Author), Hamad Rita (Author), Fernald Lia CH (Author), Ozer Emily J (Author), Zinman Jonathan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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 vulnera...