Informality as agency - Negotiating food security in Dhaka

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Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-24

  Etzold, Benjamin ^a   Bohle, Hans Georg ^a   Keck, Markus ^b   Zingel, Wolfgang Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FOOD SECURITY; MEGACITY; RESILIENCE; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH]; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 67749111848     PISSN: 00139998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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