Testing Kaldor's growth laws across the countries of Africa

African Development Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 89-105

  Wells, Heather ^a   Thirlwall, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MANUFACTURING;

AFRICA;

EID: 33748473377     PISSN: 10176772     EISSN: 14678268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2003.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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