Financial system reform in Kazakhstan from 1993 to 2006 and its socioeconomic effects

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 81-97

  Akimov, Alexandr ^a   Dollery, Brian ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Financial development; Kazakhstan; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 45549097760     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/REE1540-496X440306     Document Type: Article

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