Financing public investment through foreign aid: Consequences for economic growth and welfare

Review of International Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-44

  Chatterjee, Santanu ^a   Turnovsky, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; INTERNATIONAL AID;

EID: 14844295410     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2005.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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