Financial reforms and interest rate spreads in the commercial banking system in Malawi

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 96-122

  Chirwa, Ephraim W ^a   Mlachila, Montfort ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

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