Quantifying the GDP-construction relationship

Economics for the Modern Built Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 34-59

  Lewis, Timothy Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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EID: 84911126853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203938577     Document Type: Chapter

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