Whither the lender of last resort?: The rise and fall of public farm credit in Australia and New Zealand

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-77

  Argent, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture finance relation; Financial deregulation; Geographical scale; Public farm credit

Indexed keywords

DEREGULATION; FINANCIAL PROVISION; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL FINANCE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033969598     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-0167(99)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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