Angola 2025: The Future of the "World's Richest Poor Country" as Seen through a Chinese Rear-View Mirror

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Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 993-1014

  Power, Marcus ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angola; China; Development; Inequality; Urbanism

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABOR RELATIONS; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; URBANIZATION;

ANGOLA; CHINA;

EID: 84860681592     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00896.x     Document Type: Article

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