Relative price shifts, economies of scale and poverty during economic transition

Economics of Transition

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 509-536

  Lanjouw, Jean O ^a   Lanjouw, Peter ^b   Milanovic, Branko ^b   Paternostro, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Development Economics Research Group   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Poverty; Public goods; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POVERTY; PRICE DYNAMICS; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 4444248737     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0967-0750.2004.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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