Banking services for everyone? Barriers to bank access and use around the world

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 397-430

  Beck, Thorsten ^a   Demirgüç Kunt, Asli ^b   Peria, Maria Soledad Martinez ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CREDIT PROVISION; ECONOMY OF SCALE; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; WORLD BANK;

EID: 58149385973     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhn020     Document Type: Article

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