Small country size and returns to scale in manufacturing

World Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 507-515

  Briguglio, Lino Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Economies of scale; Manufacturing; Small country size

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; COUNTRY SIZE; ECONOMY OF SCALE; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTION FUNCTION;

EID: 0031878743     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)10059-6     Document Type: Article

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