Microfinancing in Bangladesh: Impact on households, consumption and welfare

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1083-1092

  Mahjabeen, Rubana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Commercial banks; Microfinance institutions; Real financial computable general equilibrium model

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949134783     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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