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Price Integration in Low-Income Countries: Market Structure and Retail Price-Setting Behaviour in Lesotho

Research Note
Published on 2 May 2014

Abstract

This research note by Mamello Nchake and Lawrence Edwards (both University of Cape Town) summarizes the authors' stylised findings on price-setting behaviour among retail outlets in Lesotho using disaggregated product price data.

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