Micro-macro linkages in financial markets: The impact of financial liberalization on access to rural credit in four African countries

Journal of International Development

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 367-384

  Mosley, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL MARKET; LIBERALIZATION; RURAL ECONOMY;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032779931     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199905/06)11:3<367::AID-JID589>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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