Setting the scene: Local economic development in Southern Africa

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

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 1-16

  Nel, Etienne ^a   Rogerson, Christian M ^b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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