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Modeling the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal famine in Southern Sudan

Steven Arquitt1, Paul Howe2, Luka Biong Deng Kuol3,4

  • 1The Millennium Institute, Washington, DC, United States. sa@millennium-institute.org.

Journal of Public Health Policy
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