Why illness causes more serious economic damage than crop failure in rural Cambodia

Development and Change

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 759-783

  Kenjiro, Yagura ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; CROP PRODUCTION; MORBIDITY; RURAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 28244501853     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2005.00433.x     Document Type: Review

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