Financial Development and Poverty Alleviation : Issues and Policy Implications for Developing and Transition Countries »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2001/160
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Vassili Prokopenko , and Paul Holden
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2001
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451857740.001
ISBN: 9781451857740
Keywords: financial development, financial institutions, financial system, financial services, financial markets, financial sector, Financial Institutions and Services: General, Economic Development: General,
This paper reviews current thinking on the relationship between financial development and poverty alleviation-a subject that has grown increasingly important in the policy prescriptions of the IMF and other interna...