Questions of ownership: Proprietorship and control in a changing rural terrain-a case study from Ghana

Africa

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-56

  Berry, Sara ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; DECENTRALIZATION; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; NEOLIBERALISM; OWNERSHIP; PRIVATIZATION; RURAL AREA; TERRAIN;

ASHANTI; GHANA;

EID: 84872922412     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: 17500184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001972012000708     Document Type: Review

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