Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Legal Deficiency or Elite Capture of the Rule of Law?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.03.006
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foreign direct investment; land governance; land grabs; large-scale land acquisition; sub-Saharan Africa;All these keywords.
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