Slums of hope and slums of despair: Mobility and livelihoods in Nima, Accra

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 180-190

  Owusu, George ^a   Agyei Mensah, Samuel ^a   Lund, Ragnhild ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accra; Livelihoods; Poverty; Slums

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POVERTY DETERMINANT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ACCRA; AFRICA; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 52349115639     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: 15025292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291950802335798     Document Type: Article

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