Social networks in Ghana

The Social Economics of Poverty: On Identities, Communities, Groups, and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 232-255

  Udry, Christopher R ^a   Conley, Timothy G ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203799659     Document Type: Chapter

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