Sustainability of community-based organizations of the rural poor: Learning from Concern's rural development projects, Bangladesh

Community Development Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-62

  Datta, Dipankar ^a  

^a NONE   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL PLANNING; SUSTAINABILITY;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33846902803     PISSN: 00103802     EISSN: 14682656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsi093     Document Type: Article

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