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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
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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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