Community capacity-building: Something old, something new...?

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-359

  Craig, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Community development; Poverty; Regeneration; Top down

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; STATE ROLE;

EID: 34547101505     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018307078846     Document Type: Article

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