Indigenes' and migrants' access to land in peri-urban areas of Accra, Ghana

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  International Development Planning Review

• Publication date

  2008-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3828/IDPR.30.2.5
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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