Gendered impacts of agricultural subsidies in Zambia
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Keywords
FISP; Productivity gap; gender; Zambia;All these keywords.
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- Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2018-10-08 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2018-10-08 (Development)
- NEP-HME-2018-10-08 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
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