Reopening the Convergence Debate: A New Look at Cross-Country Growth Empirics

Journal of Economic Growth

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 363-389

  Caselli, Francesco ^a   Esquivel, Gerardo ^a   Lefort, Fernando ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Generalized method of moments; Growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011060066     PISSN: 13814338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00141044     Document Type: Article

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