The composition of public expenditure and economic growth

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 313-344

  Devarajan, Shantayanan ^a   Swaroop, Vinaya ^a   Zou, Heng Fu ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Economic growth; Productive and unproductive government expenditures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030115663     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(96)90039-2     Document Type: Article

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