Community-based planning and poverty alleviation in oaxaca, Mexico

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-260

  Mason, David R ^a   Beard, Victoria A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Collective action; Community based planning; Decentralization; Mexico; Migration; Oaxaca; Poverty; Remittances; Rural development; Social capital; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 39349100124     PISSN: 0739456X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X07306394     Document Type: Article

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