Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction
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Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 46 (2007), No. 3; DLG-Verlag Frankfurt/M. TORERO, MAXIMO and JOACHIM VON BRAUN (eds.) (2006): Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction. The Potential of Telecommunications. Baltimore, MA, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, USA, 392 pp. ISBN 0 8018 8041 6, US$60.00 (hardcover).
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