Treasure island or desert island? Offshore finance and economic development in small island economies: The case of Labuan

Development Policy Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-175

  Abbott, Jason ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; OFFSHORE FINANCE; SMALL ISLAND STATE;

LABUAN; MALAYSIA;

EID: 0034101111     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7679.00105     Document Type: Article

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