Initial Conditions, Social Capital and Growth in Africa

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Journal of African Economies

• Publication date

  1998-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Economics, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.JAE.A020954
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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