Literacy and growth

Topics in Macroeconomics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Coulombe, Serge ^a   Tremblay, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convergence; Growth regressions; Human capital; Literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751048378     PISSN: 15345998     EISSN: 15345998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-5998.1404     Document Type: Article

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