Informal rental markets: The low-quality, high-price puzzle in nairobi's slums

Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 191-223

  Gulyani, Sumila ^a   Talukdar, Debabrata ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 84892268002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8862-9_8     Document Type: Chapter

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