Polarization, politics and property rights: Links between inequality and growth

Public Choice

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 127-154

  Keefer, Philip ^a   Knack, Stephen ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 0036109143     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015168000336     Document Type: Article

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