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World Development Report 2019: The changing nature of work

By the World Bank. Washington, DC, World Bank, 2019, 151 pp. ISBN 978-1-4648-1342-9 (hbk). ISBN 978-1-4648-1328-3 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-4648-1356-6 (eBook), DOI:10.1596/978-1-4648-1328-3

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Stromquist, N.P. World Development Report 2019: The changing nature of work. Int Rev Educ 65, 321–329 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-019-09762-9

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