Improving productivity - Opening the black box

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 445-456

  Mayhew, Ken ^a   Neely, Andy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; INVESTMENT; POLICY MAKING; PRODUCTIVITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845391821     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grj026     Document Type: Article

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