Understanding housing CBOs: Comparative case studies from Zimbabwe

Third World Planning Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 325-348

  Vakil, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATION; COMMUNITY ORGANISATION; COOPERATIVE SECTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HOUSING COOPERATIVE; HOUSING SECTOR; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0030428762     PISSN: 01427849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/twpr.18.3.n692336720158720     Document Type: Review

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