Banking for the poor: Addressing the needs of financially excluded communities in Newcastle upon Tyne

Urban Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1505-1524

  Fuller, Duncan ^a   Mellor, Mary ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL SERVICES; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 43149105364     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098008090686     Document Type: Article

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