Local demand, investment multipliers, and industrialization:Theory and application to the Guatemalan highlands

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-92

  Fafchamps, Marcel ^b   Helms, Brigit ^a  

^a International Fund for Agricultural Development   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central America; Industrialization; Location externalities; Multiple equilibria; Rural development; Rural industries; Small enterprises

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INDUSTRIALISATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL INDUSTRY; SMALL ENTERPRISE SECTOR;

GUATEMALA;

EID: 0030476483     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(95)00053-4     Document Type: Article

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