How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: A General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data

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How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity : A General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data. / Heltberg, Rasmus.

Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1996.

Publikation: Working paperForskning

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Heltberg, R 1996 'How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: A General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data' Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

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Heltberg, R. (1996). How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: A General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

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Heltberg R. How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity: A General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. 1996.

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Heltberg, Rasmus. / How Rural Market Imperfections Shape the Relation Between Farm Size and Productivity : A General Framework and an Application to Pakistani Data. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1996.

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