The digital provide: Information (technology), market performance, and welfare in the South Indian fisheries sector

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 879-924

  Jensen, Robert ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547693006     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.122.3.879     Document Type: Review

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