Globalisation, factor prices, and poverty in colonial India

Australian Economic History Review

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-94

  Roy, Tirthankar ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deindustrialisation; Economic growth; Factor market; South Asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247875867     PISSN: 00048992     EISSN: 14678446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2006.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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