Causality between research output and economic growth in BRICS

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 167-176

  Inglesi Lotz, Roula ^a   Chang, Tsangyao ^b   Gupta, Rangan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BRICS; Dependency and heterogeneity; Economic growth; Panel causality test; Research papers published

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890387248     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-013-9980-8     Document Type: Article

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