Can Developing Countries Gain from Defying Comparative Advantage? Distance to Comparative Advantage, Export Diversification and Sophistication, and the Dynamics of Specialization
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عنوان ژورنال: World Development
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0305-750X
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.09.012