Inequality, resource depletion, and welfare accounting: Applications to Indonesia and Costa Rica

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1191-1202

  Torras, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INCOME; RESOURCE DEPLETION;

COSTA RICA; INDONESIA;

EID: 0032766827     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00047-9     Document Type: Article

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