Inequality and growth: What can the data Say?

Journal of Economic Growth

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-299

  Banerjee, Abhijit V ^a   Duflo, Esther ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MIT and NBER   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross country regressions; Growth; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344583937     PISSN: 13814338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026205114860     Document Type: Article

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