"Custom" and Contestation: Land Reform in Post-Socialist Mongolia

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1400-1410

  Upton, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central Asia; customary tenure; Mongolia; pastoralism

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LAND REFORM; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE; PASTORALISM; STATE LED DEVELOPMENT; STATE ROLE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 67649427850     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.08.014     Document Type: Article

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