Are the poor benefiting from China's land conservation program?

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 593-620

  Uchida, Emi ^a   Xu, Jintao ^b   Xu, Zhigang ^b   Rozelle, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547425762     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X07003713     Document Type: Article

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