Inventories and risk in African manufacturing

Economic Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 466, 2000, Pages 861-893

  Fafchamps, Marcel ^a   Gunning, Jan Willem ^b   Oostendorp, Remco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; RISK FACTOR;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0033693857     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00568     Document Type: Article

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