Privatising Development: Project Finance Law and Human Rights

Privatising Development: Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages xi-xxvi

  Likosky, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85145145432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/9789047407300_003     Document Type: Editorial

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