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ACCOUNTING, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & BUSINESS ETHICS

Households’ willingness to pay for the restoration of degraded forest: empirical evidence from Dengego model tree-based restoration project site, Haramaya District, Ethiopia

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Article: 2210915 | Received 21 Dec 2022, Accepted 03 May 2023, Published online: 14 May 2023

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