Proximate Landscapes of Economic Inclusion in Southeastern Pennsylvania

Professional Geographer

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 132-144

  Dunham, Ian M ^a   Foster, Alec ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bank access; economic inclusion; spatial regression; unbanked underbanked; urban inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920723544     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2014.907697     Document Type: Article

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