Marketable Wealth in a Poor African Country: Using an index of consumer durables to investigate wealth accumulation by households in Ghana

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Marketable Wealth in a Poor African Country: Using an index of consumer durables to investigate wealth accumulation by households in Ghana

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Burger, Ronelle
Booysen, Frikkie
van der Berg, Servaas
von Maltitz, Michael

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Paper provided by World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) in its series Working Papers with number RP2006/138.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Rogg, Christian, 2006. "Asset Portfolios in Africa: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia," Working Papers RP2006/145, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). [Downloadable!]

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