"Grabbing hand" or "helping hand"?: Corruption and the economic role of the state

Governance

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-208

  Hopkin, Jonathan ^b   Rodríguez Pose, Andrés ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 34248184082     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: 14680491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2007.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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