Reflections on Third World Development: Ground Level Reality, Exogenous Forces, and Conventional Paradigms

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Evaluation of land use-transportation systems with the Analytic Network Process

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Gender, migration and the organisation of work under economic devolution: Ecuador, 1982-90

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