Public external debt, informality and production efficiency in developing countries

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 487-495

  Drine, Imed ^a   Nabi, M Sami ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Informality; Production efficiency; Public external debt

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149151476     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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