Measuring Financial Inclusion: Explaining Variation in Use of Financial Services across and within Countries
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عنوان ژورنال: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1533-4465
DOI: 10.1353/eca.2013.0002