Leader behaviour and the natural resource curse

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 628-650

  Caselli, Francesco ^a   Cunningham, Tom ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; INVESTMENT; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; NATURAL RESOURCE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70349538879     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpp023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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