Munich Personal RePEc Archive
Trade Liberalization and Poverty in
Bangladesh
Raihan, Selim
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM),
Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
December 2008
Online at
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37905/
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