Catching up in the postwar period: Puerto Rico as the fifth "Tiger"?

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 869-885

  Baumol, William J ^a   Wolff, Edward N ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMIGRATION POLICY; LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0030461685     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(96)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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