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Social accounting matrix multipliers in a developing economy: the case of Greece

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The purpose of this paper is: (i) to establish the quantitative relationships between production activities, factorial incomes and household incomes in Greece, and (ii) to decompose these relationships into separate effects. For this purpose use is made of the flows between these three sets of sectors into which the Greek economy has been divided in the framework of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM).

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    Theodoros Skountzos (Professor of Development Economics at the Piraeus Graduate School of Industrial Studies)

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Skountzos, T. Social accounting matrix multipliers in a developing economy: the case of Greece. Econ Plann 22, 57–70 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00395871

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