Informality as borrowed security: Contested food markets in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 111-127

  Keck, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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