Health and infrastructure in a model of endogenous growth

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1407-1422

  Agénor, Pierre Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endogenous growth; Health; Infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349127038     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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