Tailored for Panama: Offshore banking at the crossroads of the Americas

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-47

  Warf, Barney ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; INVESTMENT; OFFSHORE APPLICATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 2942688384     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3684.2002.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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