Human Capital, Trade Competitiveness and Environmental Efficiency Convergence Across Asia Pacific Countries

Florence Appiah-Twum1, Xingle Long1

  • 1School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013 China.

Environmental & Resource Economics
|January 23, 2023
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