Whose minerals, whose development? Rhetoric and reality in post-conflict sierra leone

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1103-1131

  Zulu, Leo ^a   Wilson, Sigismond ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROGERS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; DIAMOND; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; MINING INDUSTRY; POLITICAL REFORM; POST-WAR; POVERTY; POWER RELATIONS;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84866467122     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01788.x     Document Type: Article

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