Nontraditional or new traditional exports: Ecuador's flower boom

Latin American Research Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 40-67

  Sawers, Larry ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 27744592962     PISSN: 00238791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lar.2005.0063     Document Type: Article

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