Informal Firms and Financial Inclusion: Status and Determinants
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Keywords
Informal sector; financial inclusion; firm registration; O12; O17; L20;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
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