The millennium development goals and ambitious developmental Engineering

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1249-1265

  Gabay, Clive ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS; GOVERNMENT; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL;

EID: 84864010620     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2012.691829     Document Type: Article

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