Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique

Development and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 335-356

  Fairbairn, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELITE POLITICS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE PLANNING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL POWER; STATE ROLE;

MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 84875081686     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12013     Document Type: Article

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