‘Beneath the pavement only soil’: The poverty of post‐development
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Development Studies
- Vol. 34 (6) , 138-148
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220389808422549
Abstract
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