Caught in a Productivity Trap: A Distributional Perspective on Gender Differences in Malawian Agriculture

World Development

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 416-463

  Kilic, Talip ^a   Palacios López, Amparo ^a   Goldstein, Markus ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Decomposition methods; Gender; Malawi; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925486645     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.06.017     Document Type: Article

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