Are Women More Likely to be Credit Constrained? Evidence from Low-Income Urban Households in the Philippines
Based on survey data for 2002 and 2006, this paper investigates the determinants of credit constraints among women and men in two urban slum communities of Manila in the Philippines. The results show that women are more likely to be credit constrained than men. Rather than wealth, informal lenders s...
Main Author: | Malapit, Hazel Jean L. |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Taylor and Francis
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13364 |
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