Growth is Good for Whom, When, How? Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Exceptional Cases

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2127-2143

  Donaldson, John A ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

economic growth; liberalization; poverty reduction

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LIBERALIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; POVERTY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 53849105398     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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