Informal rules! Using institutional economics to understand service provision in Turkey's spontaneous settlements

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 98-122

  Leitmann, Josef ^a   Baharoglu, Deniz ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GECEKONDUS; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; SERVICE PROVISION; URBAN SERVICES;

TURKEY;

EID: 0031685232     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220389808422538     Document Type: Article

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