Welfare Effects of Agricultural Technology adoption: the case of improved groundnut varieties in rural Malawi
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Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-07-23 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2012-07-23 (Agricultural Economics)
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