Banking on the margin in Canada

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 252-263

  Buckland, Jerry ^a   Dong, Xiao Yuan ^b,c  

^a Canadian Mennonite University   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Financial exclusion; Personal finance; Poverty; Unbanked

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCE; LOW INCOME POPULATION; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 47949113407     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: 15523543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242408318738     Document Type: Article

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