When fishery rhymes with poverty: A first step beyond the old paradigm on poverty

World Development

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 949-975

  Béné, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Asia; Poverty; Small scale fisheries; Socio institutional exclusion

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL FISHERY; FISHERY ECONOMICS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

AFRICA; ASIA;

EID: 0038630639     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(03)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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