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A credit market in early stages of economic development

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  • Nakamura, Hideki
  • Nakajima, Tetsuya

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Even if the relatively rich and the poor are initially caught in a poverty trap, the relatively rich can escape poverty by receiving payments from the poor. Further accumulation of wealth by the rich allows the poor to escape poverty.

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  • Nakamura, Hideki & Nakajima, Tetsuya, 2011. "A credit market in early stages of economic development," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 112(1), pages 42-44, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:112:y:2011:i:1:p:42-44
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    1. Debdatta Pal & Arnab Laha, 2014. "Credit off-take from formal financial institutions in rural India: quantile regression results," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 2(1), pages 1-20, December.

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