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DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Structural and stochastic poverty, shocks, and resilience capacity in rural Ethiopia

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Article: 2256124 | Received 05 Jan 2022, Accepted 01 Sep 2023, Published online: 14 Sep 2023

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