Prabirjit Sarkar

University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

Honourary Research Associate

Cambridge

United Kingdom

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1.

Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis

University of Cambridge, CBR Working Paper, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 108/2008
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010
John Armour, Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias Siems and Ajit Singh
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), European University Institute (EUI) and United Nations
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law and finance, shareholder rights, corporate governance, corporate finance, legal origins, comparative law

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Common Law vs. Civil Law: Which System Provides More Protection to Shareholders and Creditors and Promotes Financial Development

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 22 Aug 2011
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Shareholder protection, Creditor Protection, Investor Protection, Corporate Governance, Law and Finance.

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Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?

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Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 377/2017
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Nov 2017
Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar and Mathias Siems
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and European University Institute (EUI)
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corporate governance, shareholder protection, financial development, stock market development

Is There a Relationship between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 9/2018
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Jan 2018
Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar and Mathias Siems
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and European University Institute (EUI)
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corporate governance, shareholder protection, financial development, stock market development

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Private Capital Accumulation in India since the mid-1970s: Does Stock Market Matter?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2024
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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: Stock Market, Market Capitalisation Value of Stock Trading, Turnover Ratio, Stock Market Listing, Private Fixed Capital Accumulation

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An End to Consensus? The Selective Impact of Corporate Law Reform on Financial Development

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 40/2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 182/2011
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2011
Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar and Ajit Singh
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and United Nations
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legal origins, company law, shareholder rights, creditor rights, financial development

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Trade Openness and Growth: Is There Any Link?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Dec 2006
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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growth, opening up, liberalization, less developed countries and globalization

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Corporate Governance, Stock Market Development and Private Capital Accumulation: A Case Study of India

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2017
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Stock Market, Corporate Governance, Development, India

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India's Foreign Trade and Real Exchange Rate Behaviour, 1980-1998

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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India, liberalisation, growth, real exchange rate, export performance

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The World Bank and the IMF as International Economic Institutions

Roskilde University IDS Paper Series, November 1990
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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IMF, World Bank, Old Order, New International Economic Order, Neocolonisation

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Assessing the Long-Run Economic Impact of Labour Law Systems: A Theoretical Reappraisal and Analysis of New Time Series Data

CLPE Research Paper No. 30/2008
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Simon Deakin and Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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labour law, employment, productivity, redistribution, complementarities, legal origins, varieties of capitalism

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Capital Accumulation in Less Developed Countries: Does Stock Market Matter?

Jadavpur University Working Paper No. 06-06
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2008
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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stock market, capital accumulation, growth, and liberalisation

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Do Labour Laws Increase Equality at the Expense of Higher Unemployment? The Experience of Six OECD Countries, 1970-2010

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Do Labour Laws Increase Equality at the Expense of Higher Unemployment? The Experience of Six OECD Countries, 1970-2010

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 11/2014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Feb 2014
Simon Deakin, Jonas Malmberg and Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), Uppsala University and University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Labour, Labour Law, Equality, Unemployment

Do Labour Laws Increase Equality at the Expense of Higher Unemployment? The Experience of Six OECD Countries, 1970-2010

Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge Working Paper No. 442
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Oct 2013
Simon Deakin, Jonas Malmberg and Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), Uppsala University and University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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income distribution, labour law, unemployment rate, long-term unemployment, youth unemployment

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Labour Law and Inclusive Development: The Economic Effects of Industrial Relations Laws in Middle-Income Countries

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 13/2014
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Feb 2014
Simon Deakin, Colin Fenwick and Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), International Labour Office and University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Labour Law, Industrial Relations

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Do the English Legal Origin Countries Have More Dispersed Share Ownership and More Developed Financial Systems?

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2008
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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law and finance, legal origins, comparative law

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Debt Crisis, Commodity Prices, Transfer Burden and Debt Relief

IDS Sussex Discussion Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar and Hans W Singer
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and IDS, Sussex, Brighton
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debt crisis, transfer burden, less developed countries, IMF, World Bank

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Is There Any Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Growth? Experiences of India and Korea

Revue Tiers Monde, October 2005
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Trade Liberalization, Growth, Asia, India, Korea

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Trend of Legal Globalisation and Stock Market Development

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Jun 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Stock Market, Corporate Governance, Financial Development, Leximetrics

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De-Industrialisation Through Colonial Trade

Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 297-302, 1992
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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de-industrialisation, colonisation, industrial revolution, uneven development, terms of trade

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Does Creditor Protection Matter? Legal and Financial Development in Four OECD Countries, 1970-2005

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 Jun 2015
Prabirjit Sarkar and Simon Deakin
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Creditor protection, legal origin, financial development, common law and civil law.

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Product Market Competition, Corporate Governance and Legal Origin

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Apr 2012
Prabirjit Sarkar, Simon Deakin, Ajit Singh and Dominic Heesang Chai
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), United Nations and The University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
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legal origin, corporate governance, shareholder protection, product market competition, persistence of profits

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India's Macroeconomic Performance Since 1970: Is There Any Change Under the Regime of 'Liberalisation'?

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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India, liberalisation, growth

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Does Employment Protection Lead to Unemployment? A Panel Data Analysis of OECD Countries, 1990-2008

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2012
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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labour law, regular job protection, temporary job protection, unemployment rate, long-term unemployment, youth unemployment

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Does Labour Market Intervention Lead to Unemployment? What the Data Show

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 21 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2012
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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law and economics, labour law, legal origin theory, unemployment rate, long-term unemployment, youth unemployment

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A Centre-Periphery Framework on Kaldorian Lines

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Mar 2009
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Kaldor, Kalecki, Centre-Periphery, North-South, Terms of Trade, Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, structuralist macroeconomics

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Protection of creditors and shareholders: Does this matter for credit market and stock market development in emerging countries

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2024
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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shareholder protection, creditor protection, credit market development and stock market development

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Does Anglo-Saxon Corporate Governance Matter for Capitalist Development of Emerging Asian Economy? A Case Study of India

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2017
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Functioning of Political Institutions, Markets’ Operating Freedom and Growth in Less Developed Countries, 2001-2006: A Quantitative Analysis

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Jun 2015
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Institutions, Development, Growth

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Does Regulation of Competition Matter for Growth in Less Developed Countries?

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Jun 2015
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Competition, Regulation, Institutions, Development, Growth

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Does Stock Market Development Promote Capital Accumulation?

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jan 2023
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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stock market, capital accumulation, growth

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Does Finance Matter for Growth?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2025
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)
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Financial development, Growth, Cross country dependence, CS-ARDL dynamic panel data analysis

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Law, Finance and Development Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data

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Law, Finance and Development Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data

Cambridge Journal of Economics, March, 2010
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2011
Prabirjit Sarkar and Ajit Singh
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and United Nations

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Shareholder protection, Corporate Governance, Stock market development, Law and Finance

Law, Finance and Development: Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp. 325-346, 2010
Posted: 01 Mar 2010
Prabirjit Sarkar and Ajit Singh
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and United Nations

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Shareholder protection, Corporate governance, Stock market development, Law and finance

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The North-South Terms of Trade Debate: A Re-Examination

Progress in Development Studiesa, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2001
Posted: 03 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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commodity prices, North-South trade, Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, terms of trade

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Growth and Terms of Trade: A North-South Macroeconomic Framework

Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997
Posted: 03 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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North-South model, terms of trade, product cycles, Prebisch-Singer thesis

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The Singer-Prebisch Hypothesis: A Statistical Evaluation

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 355-371, 1986
Posted: 03 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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terms of trade, North-South trade, uneven development, Prebisch, Singer

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Technical Progress and the North-South Terms of Trade

Review of Development Economics, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2001
Posted: 03 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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North-South model, terms of trade, Prebisch-Singer thesis, uneven development

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Effective Demand and Income Distribution in the Context of Agriculture-Industry Demand Linkage: A Two-Sector Macroeconomic Framework

Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1993
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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Distribution, Growth, Stagnationsim, intersectoral terms of trade, Kalecki

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Manufactured Exports of Developing Countries and Their Terms of Trade Since 1965

World Development, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1991
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar and Hans W Singer
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and IDS, Sussex, Brighton

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North-South manufacture trade, Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, terms of trade, uneven development, unequal exchange

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Debt Crisis of the Less Developed Countries and the Transfer Debate Once Again

Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, July 1991
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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Debt crisis, less developed countries, transfer burden, Keynes-Ohlin debate

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Distribution and Growth: A Critical Note on "Stagnationism"

Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 62-70, 1993
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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Distribution, Growth, Stagnationsim, Kaleckian macroeconomics, cooperative capitalism, anagonistic capitalism

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Rising Manufacture Exports and Terms of Trade: The Case Study of Korea

Progress in Development Studies, 2005
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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Korea, Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, terms of trade

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The Terms of Trade Experience of Britain Since the Nineteenth Century

Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 20-39, October 1986
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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British terms of trade, British economic history, North-South trade, uneven development, Prebisch, Singer

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Theory of Convergence and Real Income Divergence 1950-92

Economic and Political Weekly, Feb.20-26, 1999
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Prabirjit Sarkar
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR)

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Convergence, divergence, Catching up, uneven developoment, poor countries, rich countries, North, South