Assembling International Competitiveness: The Republic of Georgia, USAID, and the Doing Business Project

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  2011

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  Economic Geography

• Publication date

  2011-01-01

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  Business, Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2010.01103.x
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