Who can explain the Mauritian miracle?: Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik?

In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 205-243

  Subramanian, Arvind ^a   Roy, Devesh ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

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