Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 506-522

  Suri, Tavneet ^a   Boozer, Michael A ^b   Ranis, Gustav ^b   Stewart, Frances ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Human development; Threshold models

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; MODELING; PANEL DATA;

EID: 79951854693     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.08.020     Document Type: Article

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