Intergenerational Family Support and Old Age Economic Security in Ghana

Living Longer: Ageing, Development and Social Protection

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 210-229

  Aboderin, Isabella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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