Understanding Patterns of Economic Growth: Searching for Hills among Plateaus, Mountains, and Plains
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© 2000 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK Lant Pritchett is with the East Asia and the Pacific Country Units at the World Bank. His e-mail address is [email protected]. The author would like to thank William Easterly, Ross Levine, Deon Filmer, Dani Rodrik, and the participants at seminars at the World Bank and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Urban Studies Group for suffering through a much rougher version of this article and making useful comments. He also thanks Dennis Tao for timely assistance. Understanding Patterns of Economic Growth: Searching for Hills among Plateaus, Mountains, and Plains
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