Rural banking and landless labour households: Institutional reform and rural credit markets in India

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 502-544

  Ramachandran, V K ^a   Swaminathan, Madhura ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Agricultural labour; Financial liberalization; India; Rural credit; Village studies

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CREDIT PROVISION; MICROFINANCE; RURAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2442502730     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0366.00044     Document Type: Article

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