Development and Income Distribution: The Case of Puerto Rico

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1395-1406

  Sotomayor, Orlando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Development model; Inequality; Latin America; Poverty; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; WAGE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 3242695342     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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