Trade liberalisation and poverty: What are the links?

World Economy

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1339-1367

  Winters, L Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; POVERTY DETERMINANT; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; TRADE POLICY;

EID: 0036763174     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9701.00495     Document Type: Article

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