African Cities and the Development Conundrum

This 10th thematic issue of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa's recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rur...

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Main Author: Carole Ammann; Till Förster (Editors)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2018.
Series:International development policy ; 10.
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