Poverty and economic development: Not as direct as it may seem

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 217-228

  Mehanna, Rock Antoine ^a,b  

^a WARTBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b American University of Technology   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Crime; Economic development; Gini coefficient; Poverty; VAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842502005     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2003.12.013     Document Type: Article

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