A Note on the Causal Factors of China's Famine in 1959–1961

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Journal of Political Economy

• Publication date

  1999-12-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, History

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  DOI 10.1086/250100
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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