Asset-based welfare: Financialization or financial inclusion?

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 658-678

  Prabhakar, Rajiv ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child Trust Fund; credit unions; progressive universalism; Welsh government

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL SERVICES; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL POLICY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84886447736     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018313483491     Document Type: Article

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