State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia

Development and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 211-232

  Grajales, Jacobo ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); CRIME; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INCENTIVE; LANDOWNERSHIP; VIOLENCE;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 84875077308     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12019     Document Type: Article

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