Mapping religious health assets: Are faith-inspired facilities located in poor areas in Ghana?

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1615-1631

  Coulombe, Harold ^a   Wodon, Quentin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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