Municipal government, urban economic growth and poverty reduction - identifying the transmission mechanisms between growth and poverty

Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 97-111

  Amis, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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