Review: Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana (2014)

Review: Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana (2014)

Review of the monograph: Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, New York: Routledge, 2014, ISBN 9780415744096, 252 pages

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nelson Oppong
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:	Africa Spectrum
Subjects:	political science, economics petroleum, socio-economic change, social change, international economic relations 300, 303, 320, 330 Ghana present
Online Access:	http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/867

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