Development strategy, viability, and economic convergence

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-308

  Lin, Justin Yifu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC PLANNING;

EID: 0038756048     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367535     Document Type: Article

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