Non-market Returns to Traditional Human Capital: Nutritional Status and Traditional Knowledge in a Native Amazonian Society

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  2008

• Venue

  The Journal of Development Studies

• Publication date

  2008-02-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1080/00220380701789901
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