Financial systems in developing economies
Subtitle: growth, inequality, and policy evaluation in Thailand
By: Robert M. Townsend
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780199533237
Subjects: Financial institutions; Economic policy; Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The Townsend thai data: development, extent, and research engendered; title: The larger context: literature in review; title: Embracing multiple approaches: methodology and a way forward; title: 1. Growth, inequality, poverty, and financial deepening; title: 2. Conceptual frameworks for measurement; title: 3. Disparities among regional economies: spatial (dis)aggregation; title: Micro Kuznets and Macro TFP decompositions; title: Driving forces: occupation, financial access, education; title: Integrated micro-macro models with dual financial sectors; title: Neoclassical benchamrks and anomalies for those with access; title: Impacts: experimental and econometric program evaluations; title: Obstacles to trade: enhanced models of selection, and the impact of policy variation.