China's agricultural reforms: The importance of private plots

China Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 54-78

  Mead, Robert W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

O53; P27; Q15

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012942717     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1043-951x(99)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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