China as a Final Market: The Gabon Timber and Thai Cassava Value Chains

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1177-1190

  Kaplinsky, Raphael ^a   Terheggen, Anne ^a   Tijaja, Julia ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cassava; China; Gabon; Thailand; Timber; Value chains

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; CASSAVA; COMMODITY MARKET; ECONOMIC GROWTH; TIMBER;

CHINA; GABON; THAILAND;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 79957951231     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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