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The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa

Edited by Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons
Reviewed by Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Fall 1978
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa
Edited by Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons
University of California Press
1978
448 pp.
$16.50
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