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Transportation Costs, Food Markets and Structural Transformation in Tanzania (Working Paper)

Working paper 31 Mar 2012 Cities

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  • Transportation Costs, Food Markets, and Structural Transformation in Tanzania

Authors

Christopher Adam

Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford

David Bevan

Lecturer in Economics, University of Oxford

Douglas Gollin

Jason P. and Chloe Epstein Professor of Economics, Tufts University

Beatrice Kalinda Mkenda

Faculty Member, University of Dar es Salaam
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