Trade policies, institutions and the natural resource curse

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1443-1451

  Arezki, Rabah ^a   van der Ploeg, Frederick ^b,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NATURAL RESOURCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TRADE POLICY;

EID: 77957556835     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850903035881     Document Type: Article

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