Rebuilding after war: Micro-level determinants of poverty reduction in Mozambique

Research Report of the International Food Policy Research Institute

Volumn , Issue 132, 2003, Pages 1-96

  Simler, Kenneth R ^a   Mukherjee, Sanjukta ^a   Dava, Gabriel L ^b   Datt, Gaurav ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVING STANDARD; POST-WAR; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; POVERTY DETERMINANT;

AFRICA; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 1842686799     PISSN: 08867372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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