Hanging in, stepping up and stepping out: livelihood aspirations and strategies of the poor

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  2009

• Venue

  Development in Practice

• Publication date

  2009-02-20

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1080/09614520802689535
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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