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Decentralisation and Devolution: a Review of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Nairobi, 1978

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Chung-Tong Wu
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer in Town and Country Planning, University of Sydney, New South Wales1

Extract

The Lesotho Minister for Agriculture, Co-operatives, and Marketing was reported recently to have shaken the delegates at the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Development in Rome by his observation on the value of such intergovernmental gatherings on the subject of development:

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Africana
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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