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Does an increase in education quality cause developing countries to catch up?

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|Dec 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2022-0028 | Journal eISSN: 2543-5361 | Journal ISSN: 2299-9701
Language: English
Page range: 393 - 408
Submitted on: Oct 6, 2022
Accepted on: Nov 21, 2022
Published on: Dec 31, 2022
Published by: Warsaw School of Economics
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