Financial sector reforms in Malawi: Are days of 'financial repression' gone?

Savings and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 327-352

  Chirwa, Ephraim W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; FISCAL REFORM; MARKET CONDITIONS; REFORM PROCESS;

MALAWI;

EID: 0032757079     PISSN: 03934551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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