Sharecroppers or shrewd capitalists? Projections of the US current account, international income flows, and net international debt

Review of International Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1036-1061

  Kitchen, John ^a  

^a Office of Management and Budget   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DEBT; INCOME; SUSTAINABILITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35448964399     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: 14679396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2007.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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