Availability of financial services and income inequality: The evidence from many countries

Emerging Markets Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 404-408

  Mookerjee, Rajen ^a   Kalipioni, Paul ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking; Financial services; Income inequality; Macro finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958169303     PISSN: 15660141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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