Infant mortality and the socioeconomic conditions in the CEE countries after 1990

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 3C, 2014, Pages 555-565

  Asandului, Mircea ^a   Pintilescu, Carmen ^a   Jemna, Danut ^a   Viorica, Daniela ^a  

^a ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

CEE countries; Econometric modelling; Economic development; Infant mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923324806     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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