'Milking the elephant': Financial markets as real markets in Kenya

Development and Change

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 247-274

  Johnson, Susan ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL POLICY; INTEREST RATE; MICROFINANCE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 2142774146     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2004.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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