Economic growth in Latin America: The role of investment and other growth sources

Vanishing Growth in Latin America: The Late Twentieth Century Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 161-236

  Gutiérrez, Mario A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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