Research On Sub-Saharan Africa's Unrecorded International Trade: Some Methodological and Conceptual Problems

African Studies Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 19-41

  Ellis, Stephen ^a   Macgaffey, Janet ^a  

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EID: 85011528693     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/525434     Document Type: Article

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