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What drives the savings rate in middle -income countries? Cover

What drives the savings rate in middle -income countries?

By: Wiktor Błoch  
Open Access
|Jan 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2023.4.1072 | Journal eISSN: 2450-0097 | Journal ISSN: 2392-1641
Language: English
Page range: 56 - 73
Submitted on: Dec 3, 2022
Accepted on: Oct 29, 2023
Published on: Jan 26, 2024
Published by: Poznań University of Economics and Business Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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