Stabilisation policies in developing countries after the 2007-08 food crisis

Agricultural Policies For Poverty Reduction

Volumn 9789264112902, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-168

  Abbott, Phil ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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