Agricultural expansion, resource booms and growth in Latin America: Implications for long-run economic development

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 137-157

  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; DUTCH DISEASE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LAND MARKET; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0348218052     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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