Financial exclusion in rural and remote New South Wales, Australia: A geography of bank branch rationalisation, 1981-98

Australian Geographical Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 182-203

  Argent, Neil M ^a   Rolley, Fran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL MARKET; RURAL ECONOMY; SERVICE SECTOR;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 0033858969     PISSN: 00049190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8470.00110     Document Type: Article

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