Implications of Trade Liberalization for Working Women’s Marriage: Case Studies of Bangladesh, Egypt and Vietnam

Trading Women’s Health and Rights?: Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing Economies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 97-120

  Amin, Sajeda ^a  

^a Population Council   (United States)

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