Is living in African cities expensive ?
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- Shohei Nakamura & Rawaa Harati & Somik V. Lall & Yuri M. Dikhanov & Nada Hamadeh & William Vigil Oliver & Marko Olavi Rissanen & Mizuki Yamanaka, 2019. "Is living in African cities expensive?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(12), pages 1007-1012, July.
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Food Security; Urban Partnerships&Poverty; Urban Poverty; Peri-Urban Communities; Nutrition; Economic Services to the Urban Poor;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2016-04-23 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2016-04-23 (Agricultural Economics)
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