Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development

Handbook of Economic Growth

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 121-176

  Spolaore, Enrico ^a   Wacziarg, Romain ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovations; Genetic distance; Intergenerational transmission; Long run growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889052589     PISSN: 15740684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53538-2.00003-4     Document Type: Chapter

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