Globalization, financial depth, and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 2025-2037

  Kai, Hisako ^a   Hamori, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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