Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Developing Countries
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Extensions to DFID Report No.7946 Lin Lin, Victoria McKenzie, Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle * Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP ** School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC 1E 7HX and University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 7602, Republic of South Africa. *** Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP and University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, Republic of South Africa
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