Nature, power, and growth

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 558-588

  Gylfason, Thorvaldur ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Center for Business/Policy Studies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT FAILURE; DUTCH DISEASE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; NATURAL RESOURCE;

EID: 0038432492     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.00215     Document Type: Article

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