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- ↑ "Critical Capacities for Effective Socio-Economic Policy Analysis and Management". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
- ↑ Adebayo Adedeji (Ed), Africa within the World: Beyond Dispossession and Dependence 1993, Zed Books ( ISBN 1-85649-250-8)
- ↑ "Fellows". Archived from the original on 2011-03-08. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ↑ Publications [ permanent dead link ]
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