Infrastructure investment, endogenous growth and economic convergence

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 145-162

  Button, Kenneth ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; INFRASTRUCTURAL PROVISION;

EID: 0031749468     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001680050067     Document Type: Article

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