Crime, transitory poverty, and isolation: Evidence from Madagascar

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 579-603

  Fafchamps, Marcel ^a   Minten, Bart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POVERTY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33646438287     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500028     Document Type: Article

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