Stronger together? Shocks, educational investment, and self-help groups in Tanzania
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Shocks; Educational investment; Self-help groups; SACCOs; Tanzania;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
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