Finance for the poor: The way forward?

Finance and Development: Surveys of Theory, Evidence and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 304-314

  Arun, Thankom ^a   Hulme, David ^a   Matin, Imran ^b   Rutherford, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

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