North Korea: Market opportunity, poverty and the provinces

New Political Economy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-256

  Smith, Hazel ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET DEVELOPMENT; NATIONAL ECONOMY; POVERTY;

NORTH KOREA;

EID: 74749105110     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563460902826005     Document Type: Article

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