Does Financial Constraints Impede Growth Convergence? Evidence From ECOWAS
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Growth; Conditional Convergence; Financial Development; Innovations;All these keywords.
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- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
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