Changing livelihoods, changing childhoods: Patterns of children's work in rural Southern Ethiopia

Children's Geographies

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 77-93

  Abebe, Tatek ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Child work; Development; Ethiopia; Gedeo; HIV AIDS; Livelihoods; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147196749     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733280601108205     Document Type: Article

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