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‘Subsistence’ Readings: World Bank and State Approaches to Commercialising Agriculture in Post-Communist Eurasia

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Pages 1253-1266 | Received 06 Nov 2017, Accepted 07 Mar 2018, Published online: 02 Apr 2018

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