Local economic development in South Africa: A useful tool for sustainable development

Local Economic Development in the Changing World: The Experience of Southern Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 131-145

  Abrahams, Diane ^a  

^a Mangaung Municipality   (South Africa)

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