Financial systems in developing economies : growth, inequality, and policy evaluation in Thailand / Robert M. Townsend.

Oxford scholarship online Economics and Finance

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The Townsend thai data: development, extent, and research engendered -- The larger context: literature in review -- Embracing multiple approaches: methodology and a way forward -- 1. Growth, inequality, poverty, and financial deepening -- 2. Conceptual frameworks for measurement -- 3. Disparities among regional economies: spatial (dis)aggregation -- Micro Kuznets and Macro TFP decompositions -- Driving forces: occupation, financial access, education -- Integrated micro-macro models with dual financial sectors -- Neoclassical benchamrks and anomalies for those with access -- Impacts: experimental and econometric program evaluations -- Obstacles to trade: enhanced models of selection, and the impact of policy variation.

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