'Each to their own': Ethnographic notes on the economic organisation of poor households in urban Nicaragua

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 391-419

  Rodgers, Dennis ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SECTOR; ETHNICITY; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; KINSHIP; URBAN AREA;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NICARAGUA;

EID: 33947580477     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380701204240     Document Type: Article

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