Catching-up and innovation in high-and low-income countries

Economics Letters

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-100

  Taskin, Fatma ^a   Zaim, Osman ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Catching up; Innovation; Malmquist productivity change index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031287025     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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