Explaining agricultural expansion, resource booms and growth in Latin America

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 437-458

  Barbier, Edward B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural land expansion; Dutch disease; Economic growth; Latin America; Resource booms

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC POLICY; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0142027786     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025781130650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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