Risk sharing and public transfers

Economic Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 486, 2003, Pages

  Dercon, Stefan ^a   Krishnan, Pramila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; FOOD AID; RISK FACTOR; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL PLANNING;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0037355448     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00116     Document Type: Article

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