Agricultural transformation and the rural labor market in Turkey

Rethinking Structural Reform in Turkish Agriculture: Beyond the World Bank's Strategy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 105-148

  Ilkkaracan, Ipek ^a   Tunali, Insan ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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