Export-oriented employment, poverty and gender: Contested accounts

Development and Change

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 653-683

  Razavi, Shahra ^a  

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Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER ISSUE; POVERTY; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 0032864994     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00132     Document Type: Article

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