Discontent with the World Bank's excursion into economic geography: Lions and butterflies once more?

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2806-2815

  Buckley, Robert M ^a   Buckley, Thomas D ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b Geocommons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; WORLD BANK;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 71049126938     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a42386     Document Type: Article

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