Selective Spatial Closure and Local Economic Development: What Do We Learn from the Argentine Local Currency Systems?

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2489-2511

  Gomez, Georgina M ^a   Helmsing, A H J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

community currency; local currency systems; regional and local economic development

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC REGENERATION; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; INCOME; LOCAL ECONOMY; MICROENTERPRISE;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 53849099605     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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