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Original Articles

Local economic development: Policy and practice in South Africa

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Pages 277-289 | Received 01 Sep 1998, Accepted 01 Nov 1998, Published online: 27 Feb 2008

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  • Respectively, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Rhodes University, Grahamstown; and Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Wales, United Kingdom. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the British Council for its financial assistance and its support of the academic exchange between the Geography Departments of the Universities of Swansea, Rhodes and Fort Hare.

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