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Measuring Women's Empowerment as a Variable in International Development
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In this article, Allendorf et al. provided research support on this paper by providing research support for the study of the effect of allogeneism on the performance of the human brain.Abstract:
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Keera Allendorf for providing research support on this paper. We would also like to thankread more
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