The Enforcement of Commercial Contracts in Ghana

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 427-448

  Fafchamps, Marcel ^a  

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EID: 0000208110     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(95)00143-Z     Document Type: Article

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