Terms-of-trade shocks and economic performance, 1870-1940: Prebisch and Singer revisited

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 629-656

  Hadass, Yael S ^a   Williamson, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TERMS OF TRADE;

EID: 0043232803     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375259     Document Type: Article

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