What drives the cross-country growth and inequality correlation?

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1272-1297

  Bandyopadhyay, Debasis ^a   Basu, Parantap ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EQUITY; HUMAN CAPITAL; NEOCLASSICAL THEORY;

EID: 29244434855     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: 15405982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-4085.2005.00325.x     Document Type: Article

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