Fiscal constraints, collection costs, and trade policies

Economics and Politics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-150

  Kubota, Keiko ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAX REFORM; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; TRADE POLICY;

EID: 14844295425     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2005.00149.x     Document Type: Article

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