Revisiting the 'Bon curve'

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 695-712

  Choy, Chia Fah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Economic development

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; DEVELOPED ECONOMIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; QUADRATIC REGRESSION; U-SHAPED; UNITED NATIONS; VERIFICATION PROCESS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DEVELOPMENT THEORY; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; UNITED NATIONS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856009223     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2011.578959     Document Type: Article

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