Open Economies Work Better! Did Africa's Protectionist Policies Cause its Marginalization in World Trade?

World Development

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 889-904

  Ng, Francis ^a   Yeats, Alexander ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive losses; Inappropriate domestic policies; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000393344     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00011-9     Document Type: Article

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