The role of small and medium-sized towns in local and regional economies

Towns in a Rural World

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 25-65

  Ratajczak, Waldemar ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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