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The importance of accurately measuring growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Salah El Serafy
Affiliation:
3128 North 17th Street, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA E-mail:SelSerafy@ Worldbank.Org@Internet
Robert Goodland
Affiliation:
3128 North 17th Street, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA E-mail:SelSerafy@ Worldbank.Org@Internet

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Copyright © 1996, Cambridge University Press

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