China's aid and poverty reduction in Africa

Rethinking Law and Development: The Chinese Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 215-246

  Banik, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 84904267174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203583104     Document Type: Chapter

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