The power of the vegetable patch: How home-grown food helps large rural households achieve economies of scale & escape poverty
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Keywords
Household economies of scale; Home-grown food; Equivalence scale; Poverty estimation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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