Urban economies, urban livelihoods and natural resource-based economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The constraints of a liberalized world economy
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African cities; African middle classes; African urbanization; development; inequality; natural resources; rural-urban migration; social justice; Sub-Saharan Africa; urban poverty;All these keywords.
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