Persistent rural poverty: Is it simply remoteness and scale?

Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 430-436

  Partridge, Mark D ^a   Rickman, Dan S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34447528741     PISSN: 10587195     EISSN: 14679353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9353.2007.00357.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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