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Transaction Costs, Market Failures, Competitiveness and the State

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  • Fafchamps, Marcel
  • De Janvry, Alain
  • Sadoulet, Elisabeth

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  • Fafchamps, Marcel & De Janvry, Alain & Sadoulet, Elisabeth, 1995. "Transaction Costs, Market Failures, Competitiveness and the State," 1994 Conference, August 22-29, 1994, Harare, Zimbabwe 183396, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.183396
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