Lost decades: Postindependence performance in Latin America and Africa

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 917-943

  Bates, Robert H ^a   Coatsworth, John H ^b   Williamson, Jeffrey G ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLITICAL HISTORY; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; POLITICAL VIOLENCE;

AFRICA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 37449010500     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050707000447     Document Type: Article

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