Clean technological change in developing-country industrial clusters: Mexican leather tanning

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - Tập 12 Số 3 - Trang 115-132 - 2010
Allen Blackman1, Arne Kildegaard2
1Resources for the Future
2University of Minnesota, Morris

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