Comparing the wealth of nations: Reference prices and multilateral real income indexes

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 401-421

  Peter Neary, J ^a   Gleeson, Bríd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

INCOME LEVEL; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; REAL INCOME; REFERENCE PRICES;

EID: 0031448575     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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