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Contributor [1]
Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 02:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
97 [3]
Article-Summary: 

This document asks whether economic development depends on geographic endowments like temperate instead of tropical location, the ecological conditions shaping diseases, or an environment good for grains or certain cash crops? Or do these endowments of tropics, germs, and crops affect economic development only through institutions or policies.

Category: 
Governance [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/12956 [5]

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