Working with legal pluralism: widowhood, property inheritance, and poverty alleviation in urban Senegal
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عنوان ژورنال: Gender & Development
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1355-2074,1364-9221
DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2015.1013678