Financial Development and Income Inequality: Evidence from African Countries
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Keywords
Financial development; income inequality; Africa G20; D63; 055;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
- G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2010-10-23 (Africa)
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