Do African countries pay more for imports? Yes

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 1-20

  Yeats, Alexander J ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL TRADE LEGACY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC THEORY; FOREIGN EXCHANGE; IMPORT COST; IMPORT PRICES; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; IRON AND STEEL IMPORTS; PRICE PREMIUM;

AFRICA;

EID: 0025587325     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/4.1.1     Document Type: Article

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