Aid and growth: What does the cross-country evidence really show?

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 643-665

  Rajan, Raghuram G ^a   Subramanian, Arvind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS   (United States)

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EID: 55549114029     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.4.643     Document Type: Article

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