The price of development?

Around ten years ago the government of the Gambia earmarked a strip of land along the Atlantic coast for tourism development. More recently, land in the same area is being used to provide affordable housing for civil servants. The chief of one village affected by these policies describes the problem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: Audio
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 2001
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/57370
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Summary:Around ten years ago the government of the Gambia earmarked a strip of land along the Atlantic coast for tourism development. More recently, land in the same area is being used to provide affordable housing for civil servants. The chief of one village affected by these policies describes the problem of land shortage he now faces.