Do Government Food Price Policies Affect the Prevalence of Obesity? Empirical Evidence from Egypt
- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in World Development
- Vol. 35 (4), 687-701
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.05.005
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