Empirics of growth and development

International Handbook of Development Economics, Volumes 1 & 2

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 32-47

  Durlauf, Steven N ^a   Kourtellos, Andros ^b   Tan, Chih Ming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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