Urban economies, urban livelihoods and natural resource-based economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The constraints of a liberalized world economy

Local Economy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 170-187

  Potts, Deborah ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African cities; African middle classes; African urbanization; development; inequality; natural resources; rural urban migration; social justice; Sub Saharan Africa; urban poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872567064     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269094212466040     Document Type: Article

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