Consumption vulnerability to risk in rural Pakistan

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-89

  Kurosaki, Takashi ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 30744459921     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380500356696     Document Type: Article

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