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Worlds apart? Challenges of multi-agency partnership in participatory watershed development in Rajasthan, India 天壤之别?印度拉贾斯坦邦参与式流域发展中多机构伙伴关系的挑战

Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/21665095.2014.938088

Saurabh Gupta

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引用次数: 9

Human development, the state and participation 人的发展、国家与参与

Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/21665095.2014.933080

Tim Anderson

引用次数: 7

Review of the legal ownership status of national lands in Cameroon: A more nuanced view 回顾喀麦隆国家土地的法律所有权状况:一个更微妙的观点

Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/21665095.2014.927739

S. Assembe-Mvondo, C. Colfer, M. Brockhaus, R. Tsanga

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引用次数: 27

Impact of cooperative membership on farmers' uptake of technological innovations in Southwest Nigeria 尼日利亚西南部合作社成员对农民接受技术创新的影响

Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/21665095.2014.978981

O. Kolade, T. Harpham

引用次数: 43

Development deadlock: aborted industrialization and blocked land restitution in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, India 发展僵局:印度西孟加拉邦和安得拉邦的工业化流产和土地归还受阻

Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/21665095.2014.967412

Patrik Oskarsson, Kenneth Bo Nielsen

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引用次数: 14

Impact of fertility on objective and subjective poverty in Malawi 生育率对马拉维客观和主观贫困的影响

Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/21665095.2014.948898

Richard Mussa

引用次数: 16

The practice of a strengths-based approach to community development in Solomon Islands 所罗门群岛对社区发展采取基于优势的做法

Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/21665095.2014.983275

J. Willetts, S. Asker, N. Carrard, K. Winterford

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引用次数: 11