Rent-seeking Behaviour and its Economic Costs in Urban Land Transactions in Accra, Ghana.
The existing body of knowledge attributes to informal land transactions in sub-Saharan African cities observed problems in city neighbourhoods. Substantial resources, often backed by donor agencies, are therefore being spent in revamping bureaux and governmental bodies in a bid to solve the problems...
| Publicado en: | Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 40; no. 10; pp. 2083 - 2099 |
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