Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure: Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 742-763

  Arndt, Channing ^a   Garcia, Andres ^b   Tarp, Finn ^a,c   Thurlow, James ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mozambique; Multipliers; Poverty; Structural path analysis; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868467254     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2011.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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