Economic roots of political conflict: The case of Sri Lanka

World Economy

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1295-1314

  Abeyratne, Sirimal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; POLITICAL CONFLICT;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 6044257490     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2004.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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