HIV, risky behavior and ethno-linguistic heterogeneity

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 606-632

  Tequame, Miron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

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EID: 84869401569     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2012-0605     Document Type: Article

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