Microcredit: What can we learn from the past?☆
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We would like to thank Francesco Galassi and Tim Guinnane for kindly providing information on the Italian and German cooperative systems, Edward S. Prescott for helpful comments, and the Entrepreneurship Research Alliance at the University of British Columbia and the University of Calgary for financial support.
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