A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model
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- John Knight, 2020. "A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model," CSAE Working Paper Series 2020-06, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
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