Education incomes poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s
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- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
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