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Gender and rural land reform in Ethiopia: reform process, tenure security, and investment

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  • Hanane Sharif Ahmed, 2017. "Gender and rural land reform in Ethiopia: reform process, tenure security, and investment," Economics PhD Theses 0417, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
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