Governance and growth: A simple hypothesis explaining cross-country differences in productivity growth

Public Choice

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 341-364

  Olson Jr , Mancur ^a   Sarna, Naveen ^a   Swamy, Anand V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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